The Nakba Continues to Unfold Before Us
The Zionist narrative of Israel’s birth was a central part of my Jewish education, right alongside the Torah, Jewish
Jewish Anti-Zionism: It's Time to Say it Out Loud
Jewish and Anti-Zionist. It’s time to use those words together and to say them out loud.
A story: in
Why I Was Heckled on Yom Kippur
In my 34-year career as a rabbi, I’ve been heckled only once during a High Holiday sermon. (I’m
The Global Sumud Flotilla and the Sacred Meaning of Solidarity
I’m increasingly hearing the claim that the Palestine solidarity movement is on the wane. Three years into Israel’s
Greater Israel is Becoming Reality - And it's Implications Are Terrifying
For more than a century, the concept of “Greater Israel” has been associated with zealous Jewish and Christian Zionist ideologues.
Zionism Isn't a Semantic Issue, It's a Moral One
As I’ve engaged in Jewish discourse over Palestine/Israel, I’ve come to notice a distinctly recurrent phenomenon: the
The New Yorker Reports on the Jewish American Divide
A number of people have asked me for my opinion on Eyal Press' eleven-page article The New Yorker article,
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