06
May
Opinion // Don’t Despair: Israel’s Not a Failure
American Jews shouldn’t be disappointed that Israel’s not a liberal wonderland.
06
May
Opinion // The Shot Heard Round the World
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By
Naomi Ragen
The Israeli soldier who “neutralized” a terrorist is not the true villain.
08
Mar
Opinion // The Cold, Hard Realist’s Case for Israel
The United States doesn’t need to get into a discussion of “shared values.”
08
Mar
Opinion // It’s Not Just That Hillary Is a Woman
And it’s not enough that Bernie is Jewish.
by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
People keep asking Jewish feminists like me which would excite us more, the first woman...
04
Mar
Opinion // Who Will Be Israel’s Champion?
It’s never been easy for the Israeli establishment to foresee how a newly elected American administration is going to behave. Israel did not know in advance that Lyndon Johnson was going to be Israel’s best American friend, possibly ever.
06
Jan
Opinion // The Victimhood Olympics
On a recent visit to America,I found myself one Shabbat morning in a large suburban shul. During the Torah service, after one of the aliyot, the rabbi gave a brief talk. He started by noting that it was the anniversary of Kristallnacht and ended by stressing the importance of the Holocaust to “our identity.”
06
Jan
Opinion // An Israeli in Paris
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By
“So, you’re probably not coming…” my daughter said with a mixture of fear and resignation…
05
Jan
Opinion // Jews, Guns & Evangelicals
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By
Sarah Posner
Evangelical Christians who don’t support guns deserve and need our support.
17
Nov
From the Editor // November/December 2015
During the Rwanda genocide, I thought about taking in a Tutsi family or adopting an orphan. But I had a baby and a job, I...
05
Nov
Opinion // Agreeing to Disagree
There is no reason for the Jewish community to be monolithic in our opinions.
03
Mar
Opinion // Ben Cohen
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By
Ben Cohen
Blaming the Jews, Again: European intellectuals have come up with a nasty new twist to anti-Semitism.
03
Mar
Opinion// Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Islamophobia, The Flip Side of Anti-Semitism: We Jews need to be careful about diminishing and defaming Muslims.