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 […]