The Magnes Zionist

On Monday night, the Jewish Voice for Peace at Brandeis presented the Brandeis Hillel Student Board with a petition with a thousand signatur...

(I wrote the below eight hours ago, way before the bus bombing. I will say something about that tomorrow. The only intelligent thing to say...

I got around to reading the latest version of the proposed law purporting to make Israelis who call for a boycott on Israel liable to civil ...

This is the third year I've run this post. Sorry, but I have to watch the Adventures of Robin Hood before I go hear the megillah being ...

Hi, it's Purim here in Shushan – oops, I mean it's about to be Shushan Purim here in Jerusalem – and once again, I am out to defend ...

There is a well-known midrash that Pharoah, at the time of the enslavement of Israel, would bathe in the blood of Israelite children to cur...

The murders at Itamar are just that -- murders. All decent people condemn them, or should condemn them. They are not to be condemned because...

Phil Weiss published parts of the rejection letter that Jewish Voice for Peace received from the Brandeis Hillel student board. A careful...

Here is the opening statement made by Jewish Voice for Peace in its bid to be recognized as a Jewish group under Hillel auspices. I think i...

While I am still waiting for Brandeis JVP to get me their press release after Hillel rejected their bid to be recognized as a Hillel student...

(NB: This is the first part of a two-part post.  Please read the second post later, which will include the statement of the JVP students who...

Charles Krauthammer, like Joan of Arc , hears voices -- only the voices he hears from "around the world, from Europe to America to L...

I had the privilege of meeting Rebecca Vilkomerson, director of Jewish Voice for Peace, in Jerusalem a few months ago. At the time I was de...

I didn't attend the plenary sessions at the J Street conference in DC; the last people I wanted to hear from were Kadima MKs and Dennis ...

Now that the bill mandating Israeli NGOs to publicize donations received from foreign governmental entities has passed, it is time to look a...

When an Israeli newspaper last Fall published a list of Bibi Netanyahu's potential list of donors for the 2007 elections, which include...

In 1969, the United States voted with the rest of the Security Council to condemn Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem and plans to bui...

Thank you, Mr. President, for vetoing the UN Security Counsel Resolution condemning the Israeli settlements as illegal. Thank you for making...

There have been two events advertised in the Jewish community that would have allowed some non-consensus speakers to speak – provided there ...

Taglit/Birthright Israel's relentless march to the right continues. First, it axed a planned Birthright trip co-organized by J Street U...

The above video was made by Asmaa Mahfouz on January 18, 2011

Israelis, and Jews worldwide, have mixed feelings about the Egyptian revolution. From a tribal perspective – and, sadly, that's the domi...

This morning (EST) the news item came down that a settler had shot dead a Palestinian who had gone to work in his fields. By evening, the ne...

"Is it good for the Jews?" has been asked by Jews whenever they learned of a significant event outside their neighborhood. In the ...

The leaks of the Palestine Papers, now being published by Al-Jazeera and the Guardian, are important on many levels and for many reasons. Bu...