Future of Jewish

For those who want to talk about Israel without being antisemitic.

"If I am the one who lived the truth and lived that reality, then I'm obligated to speak up. Israel is not an apartheid state. Israel is a strong, beautiful, multi-ethnic democracy."

It is time that everyone knows loud and clear: The Palestinians do not have a state because of the Palestinians.

Reactions to a U.S. serviceman setting himself on fire for Gaza, a "Friends" meme about Hamas, the British politician who won an election after running a "pro-Palestine" campaign, and more.

We can no longer afford to gloss over those who peddle fiction and “make believe” prophecies, regardless of our political persuasions or anything else that tugs at our heart strings.

I don’t need someone to be like me to want to connect with them. In fact, I love difference, even on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Israelis know that antisemites are empowered by Jewish fear and neutralized by Jewish strength.

As Jewish leaders pick and choose practices that align with their social norms, venerable traditionalists are shunted aside. (A version of this essay first appeared in The Times of Israel.)

If we keep ignoring it when they abuse our freedoms, they will eventually take them away.

And why the Americans have not pushed Qatar to sway Hamas to release the remaining 130 hostages, six of whom are U.S. citizens.

There are two distinct threads that bind history with our present.

"Zionism is fundamentally a Western movement. It is a movement that lives on the border of the East, but always faces the West."

“But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their illusions.”

My whole life I thought that I was a liberal. This Israel-Hamas war changed my heart and my mind.

Plus, a tribute to Vivian Silver and the other Israeli peace activists who were either killed or kidnapped on October 7th.

Reactions to Prince William and Kate Middleton getting political, Jews lighting the Menorah in February, a McDonald's customer loses it over "Israel" wrapping, and more.

Part of this Israel-Hamas war reminded me of the "Trolley Problem" — a speculative puzzle that incorporates inaction as a consequential option in a moral choice.

"Those who embrace such tribal and sectarian hatreds will invariably, in time, aim their guns well beyond the Jewish people. Indeed, if we open our eyes, we will see that they are already doing so."

“The stakes of this election don’t make Donald Trump’s opponent less subject to scrutiny. It actually makes him more subject to scrutiny.”

The IDF is fighting bravely, but many Jews in the Diaspora have yet to fight, and we are already surrounded.