The Iranian Question: Nuclear Power or Nuclear Warheads?
By Leigh Nusbaum
Watching what’s happening from the Middle East to the Midwest over the past few weeks, it seems that everyone has an opinion about...
Walking Over to the Other Side of the Pro-Peace Debate
By Scott Fox
Soon after I sat down at my table at a fundraiser sponsored by the local Justice in Palestine chapter, the elderly woman sitting...
Go East, Mr. President
by Maddie Ulanow
We’ve passed the first two weeks of November, and the 2012 presidential elections are now just a year away. It seems the campaign...
The Goldstone Saga
by Erica Shaps
Every year at Brandeis University there is at least one Israel/Palestine-related event that lights a fire under the campus. My freshman year, it...
Should We Remove the "Israel Filter" When Studying the Middle East? It's Worth Trying.
By Leigh Nusbaum
A few weeks ago, my class on the contemporary politics in the Middle East was discussing the domestic future of Syria, particularly when...
Should We Remove the “Israel Filter” When Studying the Middle East? It’s Worth Trying.
By Leigh Nusbaum
A few weeks ago, my class on the contemporary politics in the Middle East was discussing the domestic future of Syria, particularly when...
The Shalit Conundrum . . . Or Opportunity
By Leigh Nusbaum
When Gilad Shalit was kidnapped more than five years ago, I was almost 17 years old and en route to Israel for the...
Left-leaning, But Not Left Behind
by Erica Shaps
I am not a rabbinical student. My talit was made in Israel and I recently celebrated my 20th birthday in Jerusalem, not Ramallah....
Israeli Holidays: Reaching New Highs
by Erica Shaps
While I gaped at my surroundings with shock and wonder, my Yom Kippur hosts smiled at me with amusement and understanding. Since they...
Yom Kippur, Israel and Turkey
By Leigh Nusbaum
There is a saying in my High Holy Day siddur, the Gates of Repentance, that says, “For transgressions against God, the Day of...
A Jewish New Year Resolution: Scaling Back Our Use of the “D” Word
By Leigh Nusbaum
This is not a salvo—this is a challenge.
This past year, both Jewish and secular, has been an incredible conundrum for Jews in Israel...
The Jew With Two "Beards"
By Steven Philp
To their neighbors they look like every other Orthodox Jewish couple, a man and woman married for five years with two children in...