The Magnes Zionist

There haven't been many tours to Hebron run by Breaking the Silence or Bne Abraham lately. Sure, the High Court upheld their right to co...

Haaretz and Palestinian sources are reporting that Hamada Husam Musa, a nine-year old boy from the village of Nil'in, was killed by Isr...

On its front page yesterday Haaretz proclaimed an apparent triumph for the cause of justice: Part of the barrier that separates the v...

Last week I posted two articles on the visit of a highly respected delegation of ANC-activists, including former government officials and a ...

I am unable to understand the logic of those Israel supporters who say that they regrettably have no choice but to accept the West Bank stat...

There is an article in Haaretz today (in Hebrew ) about the findings of the Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din ("There is Law...

A few days ago, my newborn grandson Uri had his bris. Circumcision is one of Judaism's oldest customs; according to the Bible, it pred...

I have been following with interest the exchange between Phil Weiss and Dan Fleshler on J-Street, the alternative Jewish lobby. Phil has b...

Nicholas Kristof published an op-ed in the New York Times today that sounds like it could have been an editorial for… Haaretz ! Kristof at...

Yesterday, a few minutes before 2, I dropped a friend off on Washington St. in Jerusalem, and then headed to a meeting. Washington St. winds...

In the Jewish calendar we have now entered the period of the Three Weeks. This is a semi-mourning period beginning on the Seventeenth of Tam...

Prof. Chaim Gans devotes the last chapter of his recent book, A Just Zionism : On the Morality of the Jewish State , to the question of Jewi...

Don't you hate it when you accept an invitation to a wedding or bar mitzvah, and then remember that you have tickets for something that ...

Well, the interminable argument over whether the Israeli system of hafradah ("separation") between West Bank Jews and Palestinians...

I have in my hands -- well, next to my computer -- not only one of the most interesting books ever written about the morality of political ...

I spent my Shabbat troubled by the fact that I hadn't heard people speak up against Israel's intentions to destroy the house of the ...

The rampage of the Arab tractor-drive this week in Jerusalem, which killed several people and wounded many more, is rightly condemned. Yes, ...

Anybody accusing me of dual loyalty would be right: as a citizen of both America and Israel I pledge allegiance to two countries and enjoy t...