JERUSALEM: Recently, the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” American organization J Street held its third annual conference in Washington, DC. Many on the American Jewish left have been increasingly critical of J Street, either for shifting to (...)
JERUSALEM: Late last month I went to the children's memorial in Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem. I stood there and took in the names, the candles and the glass. And I felt confused and sad and a little bit broken.
It was 27 (...)
MIDDLEBURY, Vermont: The sun of the two-state solution is setting. The window for the only solution I believe has any chance of bringing about meaningful, sustainable peace for Israelis and Palestinians is closing, and with it Israel's future as a (...)
MIDDLEBURY, Vermont: The sun of the two-state solution is setting. The window for the only solution I believe has any chance of bringing about meaningful, sustainable peace for Israelis and Palestinians is closing, and with it Israel's future as a (...)
MIDDLEBURY, Vermont: In October, the Israeli cabinet approved a new law that will require all non-Jewish immigrants applying for citizenship to declare their loyalty to Israel as a Jewish State. Israelis across the political spectrum voiced outrage. (...)
MIDDLEBURY, Vermont: Last week the Israeli cabinet approved a new law that will require all non-Jewish immigrants applying for citizenship to declare their loyalty to Israel as a Jewish State. Israelis across the political spectrum voiced outrage. (...)
MIDDLEBURY, Vermont: The events aboard the Mavi Marmara were a disaster. It seems that on that point, everyone agrees. Where I stand, this is not primarily because they were a PR nightmare for Israel's image abroad, but because nine people were (...)
MIDDLEBURY, Vermont: The events aboard the Mavi Marmara were a disaster. It seems that on that point, everyone agrees. Where I stand, this is not primarily because they were a PR nightmare for Israel's image abroad, but because nine people were (...)
MIDDLEBURY, Vermont: Having attended J Street's first national conference in Washington, DC this October, I want to add my voice to the media controversy surrounding the new pro-Israel, pro-peace organization.
I am writing from the perspective of (...)