Searching in Vain for a “Pure” Elie Wiesel
When they read Elie Wiesel’s Night, my Bible-belt students are regularly caught up short. They…
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Talking Justice on Twitter: “We Are Breaking Down Barriers”
“As a Muslim Bangladeshi, social media has transported me across the world…”
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Reading Beinart and Lerner as Gaza Burns
I know it sounds strange but it’s a great time to be an Jewish American activist working for Middle East peace. After all these years in the closet there’s hope that the Beinartians and the Lernerites have begun a critical dialogue for Jewish Americans.
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Liberals Agree, Israel is Greatest Thing Since Sliced Challah
Jeffrey Goldberg’s review of a new book by fellow “liberal” Gershom Gorenberg perpetuates the mythology that if Israel seems impure there must be an explanation.
Read MoreKosher Quinoa or Human Rights: Guess Which Dominated Passover Stories
Forget about reflections on Palestinians and liberation let’s talk kosher dog food!
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5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel
Imagine a cabinet meeting in which a Brotherhood minister suggests negating the peace treaty and risking $1.3 billion in US aid.
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Democratic Egypt Tests a Divided Israel
Most of us are watching the unfolding events in Egypt with awe and anticipation hoping its citizens will nonviolently supplant a repressive and dictatorial regime with a democracy. Those of us who have physical or emotional ties to Israel see a more complicated picture. Israel is watching the…
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Na’vi and Goliath: Palestinian Protesters Dress as Avatar Underdogs
Many Israelis and Jews took to Avatar with aplomb, likening it to Kabbalah and turning out in record numbers in Israel. But it remains to be seen how Jews and Israelis will respond to Palestinian protesters who, dressed as the film’s besieged protagonists, aim to position themselves in the hearts of observers as the sympathetic underdogs.
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