An excerpt from Grossman’s speech at the 2006 Rabin memorial: ” It is not easy to take a look at ourselves this year. There was
The bad news is, we’re still in a pandemic (wear your mask and get your shots, please). The good news is that because COVID remains
Sarah Brammer-Shlay is a rabbinical school student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is currently living in Jerusalem. Monday May 10 is Jerusalem Day (Yom
Ian S. Lustick, Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). Almost half a century ago, in the early
There’s a general fear among rabbis about speaking honestly about their complicated relationships with the State of Israel — they worry that doing so might
In his recent book Paradigm Lost, Ian Lustick claims that the Two State Solution (TSS) paradigm is lost and we are now in a One
The decade drawing to a close (and social media memes with people comparing themselves in 2009 to 2019) invites comparisons about how things have changed
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
Ruth Ebenstein, an American-Israeli journalist, public speaker and peace activist, is the author of the forthcoming memoir, Bosom Buddies: How Breast Cancer Fostered an Unexpected Friendship
Hannah Ehlers currently lives in DC. She attended American University where she majored in Jewish Studies. Ehlers is Development Associate at the New Israel Fund,