Someday, hopefully soon, maybe not so soon, this war will be over. Even President Biden and Vice President Harris have—though wanly and unconvincingly—called for a
I am an American Jew, and I, like thousands of others, am quiet quitting the relationship I have been told I need to have with
“Q: What is the responsibility of an American Jew to Israel, especially when it comes to the conflict with Palestinians? A1: My responsibility is to
This week, Rebecca Dinar, a former Associate Vice President of the Jewish Federations of North America, published a piece at eJewish Philanthropy asking, “Are NFT’s
In the last few weeks, among many other depressing stories, the Netanyahu regime has arrested and/or tried multiple non-violent Palestinian activists, the IDF trampled Palestinian
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,
(Editor’s Note: this is an extended and adapted version of a piece that appeared in The Forward here). The polarization, toxicity, fear, and inertia around
We in the American Jewish community, as a general rule, treat our kids like they are stupid. They are not, of course. But, as I
I finished watching Our Boys on erev Simchat Torah, right before I left for hakafot. It’s been three weeks now, and as far as I
There are good ways to talk about Israel and bad ways — and I saw both on Shavuot at the JCC in Manhattan. And the question I dread the most.
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