The Magnes Zionist

Zionism was intended to solve Europe's "Jewish Problem," the supposed inability of the Jews to assimilate and become equal cit...

Update: Congratulation to Guillermo Farinas, the Cuban human rights activist, for winning the Sakharov Prize. Mr. Farinas had already come ...

Julia Bacha and Justvision's "Budrus" was screened last night at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, and will be screened again on Tu...

I haven't been posting for a while since I am in the middle of a two-week vacation. And when I return I don't expect to be posting v...

Because of the large number of Anonymous comments I get, which I find very confusing because I don't know who is who, I have decided to ...

For liberal-hawk supporters of Israel like Jeffrey Goldberg (and Alan Dershowitz and Marty Peretz and a host of other Democrats forty-four a...

I am often accused of "doom and gloom" pessimism. "Why don't you write anything nice about Israel?" I am asked. ...

Jewish Voice of Peace gets a big yasher koah for lining up some of the most talented theater people in the US and UK to support the decisi...

The Tikvah Fund has launched a Jewish webzine called, " Jewish Ideas Daily ." I became aware of its existence when one of its con...

Here's something that caught my eye. In today's Haaretz there was an article about the "sharp rise" in aliyah since last...

Organize a conference that invites virtually only hard-line Zionists (ranging in ideology from New Republic liberal hawks to Commentary ne...

How would the Obama's administration Middle East policy look different if they had left Dennis Ross and Dan Shapiro out, and brought Rob...

A very good example of what is fundamentally wrong about how Americans view the Israel/Palestinian Conflict is provided by Barbara Slavin he...

So what were the charges against Abdallah Abu Rahmah, the internationally-known organizer of the Bil'in protest, that stuck? Exonerated ...

Daniel Luban has written a timely and well-researched article in Tablet on what he calls, the "New Antisemitism," the anti-Islam...