Because different people use it in so many different ways, we end up talking past each other, especially in conversations between those who say they support Zionism and those who say they oppose it.
How do we narrate the Shoah when the living consciousness of the Holocaust is gone? The natural human instinct for justice has been felled by time. What is left is the demand for accountability, transparency, memory.
At long last, we’re discovering that love has its limits.
Deep-red Indiana isn’t a state you’d ordinarily look to as the leading edge of post-Roe v. Wade abortion politics—but a legal case there called into question whether Reform and Conservative Jewst need to be taken seriously as religious objectors.
The Law of Return is a sacred bond between the Jews of the world and the State of Israel.
Quite a few conservatives support Orbán.
The Republican Party has a Christian supremacy problem—which is also an antisemitism problem.
The prospect of Israel’s fifth election in less than four years does not seem promising.
Will the involvement of Israel-related PACs end up magnifying small policy differences on Israel? Andy Levin and Josh Block weigh in.
Anyone who spent much time in Israel before the last few years has probably heard this trope from multiple Israelis: “Everything here is crazy! Why can’t we live in a normal country?”
The sudden reemergence of violence against Rushdie is a reminder of the great issues his ordeal represents—and that fight’s human cost over decades.
Every generation faces challenges, and we certainly have our share of them.
