If the annexation debate has achieved anything, it has proved one thing: the mainstream American Jewish community is dead. It is failing all of us, right, center, or left. Community Failures Mainstream organizations like the American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League,…
A eulogy to the pioneering Middle East peace advocate I.M.A. Lederer (formerly known as Inge Lederer Gibel.)
Very few people attended both J Street’s second conference and the Jewish federation’s young leaders soiree TribeFest within the same week. I may have been the only one. At the intersection of upstart and establishment worlds, I saw firsthand the…
Things just move too fast in the Middle East to keep up these days. Netanyahu orders the “civilian blockade” lessened and maintains the “security blockade” ongoing — as if he had thought they were two separate things all along. Haaretz…
Attentive as always to the sentiment of my peers who obsess less about this issue than I do, the past weekend’s flotilla events have only confirmed what Peter Beinart wrote. His words confirm what I and others on Jewschool have…
What is grating on my nerves about the Freedom Flotilla matters now that the passengers have been unloaded in Ashdod is the rhetoric around the event. Chillul Who said it well: You can trust both sides to tell only the…