“You say you don’t want to connect to Israel for x, y, and z reasons, but – tell me something: do you care about a conversation about Jews in power?”
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Category Archives: Israel
“Debates about Israel seem to be the precise place where “existential anxiety” stopped referring to philosophical angst and started referring to the fear your nation could be destroyed”
Our current use of “existential” is about as far removed from artsy-philosophical realms as...
“The ‘most moral army in the world’ talking point is both substantively and tactically foolish, it convinces nobody…”
The IDF is not the most moral army in the world, because there is...
When Michael Oren shifted the definition of “existential”
In 2009, Michael B. Oren, soon to become Israel’s ambassador to the United States,...
“There was a more immediate motive for the timing of the Balfour Declaration”
There was a more immediate motive for the timing of the Declaration. U.S. President...
“…just because an activist group says dumb and misguided things about Jews and Israel, that doesn’t mean the campus in question is “hostile” or “uncomfortable” for Jews”
…just because an activist group says dumb and misguided things about Jews and Israel,...
“…by accusing Israel of ‘white supremacy’, the anti-Zionists sound like that old tongue-in-cheek definition of anti-Semitism…”
There are already enough reasons to be critical of Israel, if you are so...
“American Jewry and Israeli Jewry can both be success stories, even as the standards for thickness, moral integrity, spiritual health, political vitality, and continuity must be measured by different gauges”
By extension, it is time to take each of these communities seriously on their...
“…taking on the identity of being the world’s wanderers is more of a punishment than a badge of honor”
…as we converge on marking 50 years since the 1967 war reshaped the relationship...
“The gap is real between American and Israeli Jews, with the exception of small pockets of like-minded communities…”
The gap is real between American and Israeli Jews, with the exception of small...