10+ hour, 51+ min ago   (369+ words) The Wall Street Journal published a detailed investigation on Sept. 25, “The Violent Israeli Nomads Who Defy Law and Order in the Name of God.” The article probed the motives, tactics and ideological underpinnings of Israel’s most extreme Jews following a…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (241+ words) Jewish organizations from around the world signed the J50 Declaration on Zionism and Antisemitism in Jerusalem on Thursday, which states unequivocally that “Zionism is part of Jewish identity.” William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1171+ words) I always begin my annual column asking readers to play along with me and predict the events of the coming Jewish year by reminding them that as bad as things seem to be now, they can still get worse. That’s…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (841+ words) What is Zionism? Who is a Zionist? Are Jews abandoning Zionism? What do we do about anti-Zionism? The debate is incessant, and ultimately pointless. I am going to put my head on the chopping block voluntarily by suggesting that it…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (327+ words) I recently received this message in my inbox: “I appreciate you reaching out. But it would be unethical to work with an Israeli company until the genocide stops.” It came from a man named Chris, a CPA in Austin, Texas;…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1467+ words) When he faced New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a closed-door meeting with other New York rabbis in early August, Rabbi Rick Jacobs told the mayor plainly that his inflammatory rhetoric on Israel was “making Jews less safe,” he…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (757+ words) We can only pity the plight of Jewish Democrats these days. Their situation is one in which they find themselves betrayed by allies and forced to choose between standing up against open antisemitism and prioritizing the partisan loyalties and beliefs…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1040+ words) Dana Nessel, the Michigan attorney general, misunderstood the biblical story of Queen Esther when she told fellow Jewish Democrats in the state on Sunday that the lesson of the Purim holiday text was that they have a “moral imperative” to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (511+ words) There is a new way to think about the people who relentlessly incite hatred of Jews and Israel: “gain-of-function antisemitism.” The phrase borrows from the COVID-19 pandemic; specifically, former chief medical advisor to the president Anthony Fauci’s misguided funding of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (608+ words) In 1897, more than 200 Jewish delegates from 17 countries (including five Americans) gathered in Basel, Switzerland, for three days—from Aug. 29 to Aug. 31—for an audacious purpose: to transform the ancient Jewish longing for Zion into an organized political movement. Convened by…...