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. Sixty-seven percent of more than 17,000 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 […]

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 […]