Friday June 26, 2026 – י״א תַּמּוּז תשפ”ו This was a week that clarified more than it resolved. This week did not create the fault lines running through American politics on Israel. It exposed them—simultaneously, on both sides of the aisle—and forced a question liberal Zionists have been wrestling with for years: What does it actually […]
June 19, 2026 – ד׳ תַּמּוּז תשפ”ו Last month (May 29, 2026) marked thirty years since Benjamin Netanyahu was first elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1996. Few leaders in the democratic world have exercised power for so long or shaped their nation’s foreign policy so profoundly. Across three decades, Netanyahu has navigated relationships with […]
By Rabbi Lindsey Danziger After a beautiful evening at a playground in Tel Aviv with my three kids, I came back to our rented apartment in the city center and got everyone ready for bed: teeth brushed, showers taken, pajamas on. I threw in a load of laundry and climbed into bed with a cup […]
Friday, June 5, 2026 – כ׳ סִיוָן תשפ”ו When American Jews hear the term “anti-Zionist,” fairly predictable images come to mind: a campus protest, a keffiyeh, a chant about the river and the sea. The anti-Zionism that dominates our communal conversation is the kind that comes from outside — from the progressive left, from Islamist […]
May 28, 2026 – On Tuesday, May 26, 2026, the Park Slope (Brooklyn) Food Co-op voted to boycott Israeli products. Approximately 6,400 members on a Zoom call raised their virtual hands (likely using Israeli-made technology, mind you), and just like that, a beloved Brooklyn institution — a place famous for its heirloom mushrooms, its complicated […]
Minister May Golan’s recent attack on MK Rabbi Gilad Kariv and all Reform Jews in an antisemitic screed accusing him/us of “marrying dogs in your delusional synagogues,” was not merely a political insult aimed at one member of Knesset or one Movement. It was an attack on the religious identity and legitimacy of millions of […]
Friday, May 15, 2026 – כ״ח אִיָּיר תשפ”ו There is a dangerous instinct that has been emerging in the Jewish world right now and increasing in intensity over the past few years: the belief that we must choose between defending Israel and defending moral clarity. This belief claims that if one acknowledges the horrors committed […]
Friday, May 15, 2026 – כ״ח אִיָּיר תשפ”ו Today, Israel marks Jerusalem Day (well, actually yesterday because of Shabbat). Few cities occupy the Jewish imagination as much as Jerusalem does. It lives in our prayers, our poetry, our liturgy, our grief, and our dreams. Three times a day, Jews turn toward Jerusalem. At weddings, we […]
Friday, May 8, 2026 – כ״א אִיָּיר תשפ”ו Two ‘Old-New’ stories are unfolding in Israel this week. One is a legislative move building on a continual discussion that has been weighing on the fundamental identity of the Jewish State since its inception. The other, a polemic, touches on the forever conversation between the Jews of […]
May 1, 2026 – י״ד אִיָּיר תשפ”ו At a time when many American Jews feel fundamentally like there is not much we can do to change what happens in Israel and the Middle East. We often find ourselves waiting with bated breath. We agonize over negotiations with Iran, the fragile prospects of a ceasefire with […]
