The Magnes Zionist

  To the Delegates at the UMC General Conference in Tampa Dear Delegates, Before I say anything, before I try to convince you of anything...

Israeli Independence day came and went. Since the semester is not yet over, I am still in America, and there is little observance here. My s...

Günther Grass’s poem What must be said has been defended and attacked throughout the globe. The poem protests against the German sale of a...

Peter Beinart is the most recent of those who have claimed that  a Jewish state is necessary as a refuge for Jews fleeing anti-Semitism. “I ...

In an op-ed published today by Rabbi Donniel Hartman, we learn that killing “known terrorist leaders” who have “blood on their hands,” and ...

In a seminal 2004 article in Philosophy and Public Affairs , David Luban argued that a state can justifiably launch a preventive war against...

It has been my custom to reproduce this “Selling Purim to Progressives” Purim post occasionally, with some modifications.  The last time was...

Theater J, which operates out of the DC Jewish Community Center, is currently producing David Ives’ play,  New Jerusalem: The Interrogation ...

Jewish law (and common sense morality) allows one to act in self-defense. It allows preemptive measures to be taken in the case of an immine...

The indispensable MJ Rosenberg has written a nice piece railing against those politicians who are progressive except for Palestine.He then ...

Students at the University of Pennsylvania are hosting this weekend the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) Movement’s National Convent...

A few weeks I wrote a post in which I claimed that using terms like “Israel-Firster” or “Israeli Apartheid” does not make you anti-Semitic....

Adam Kirsch has written a fantastic piece arguing  that Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer’s The Israel Lobby, though universally rejected, h...

The current issue of Moment Magazine features a symposium on the subject, “What does it mean to be pro Israel today?”  To its credit, the J...

Yesterday, the State of Israel became the first western state whose High Court ruled that some citizens have fewer fundamental rights than o...