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Israel’s Season of Discontent
1 Israel Celebrates Its 70th Birthday Twice: Once for Jews, Once for Everyone Else ------- 70: an Important Jewish Number ------- An Eventful Season Jewish time deals in sevens. Think of the biblical...
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Israel’s Prerogatives
The politics of Israel often produce unintended consequences in the Diaspora. Take the Nation-State law that was recently pushed by the government and narrowly approved in the Knesset. It is a law that...
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Fraught Relationship, Fated Bond
I grew up with a Disneyland version of Israel: It was a country that had truly been a land without people waiting for a people without a land. It was immaculately conceived after Zionist leaders...
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A Homeland in America
I am exhausted by Israel. My exhaustion isn’t much compared to the humiliation and oppression of the Palestinians, who have withstood the forced conversion of the occupied West Bank into a skein of...
View ArticleA Diaspora Divided
Joshua Cohen Israel's Season of Discontent Michael Koplow Fraught Relationship, Fated Bond Ruth Margalit The Perils of the Ultra-Orthodox Alliance Theodore Ross Who's Afraid of Criticizing Israel?...
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What Israel Needs From American Jews
In my childhood, “American Jews” meant packages: Every couple of months I would go to the post office off Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square to pick up the parcel with U.S. stamps on it. My mother’s best...
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The Perils of the Ultra-Orthodox Alliance
The weeks before the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, breaks for summer recess are often a telling time. It’s when the government tries to cram through as many contentious yet politically expedient...
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Who’s Afraid of Criticizing Israel?
This spring, in the brief, bruising epoch of Roseanne Barr’s resurrection and collapse as a network TV star, a vile photo emerged on the internet. It showed Barr, a red apron tied around her waist,...
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Two Ways of Being Jewish
A Diaspora Divided Twelve writers address the changing relationship between American Jews and Israel Joshua Cohen Israel's Season of Discontent Michael Koplow Fraught Relationship, Fated Bond Ruth...
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The Deep Sources of a Great Divide
The growing divergence of American Jews from Israel is actually composed of two different phenomena: on the one hand, there is anger towards Israel among a set of American Jewish elites, especially...
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A Memoir of Disillusionment
My relationship with Israel started before I can remember. Growing up Orthodox, I started learning to read Hebrew at roughly the same time I started learning to read English, although my Hebrew had a...
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The Intersectional Jewish-American
In 1967, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) published a two-page spread in its Newsletter on “The Palestine Problem.” The group was in the midst of transitioning from being an...
View ArticleDid Brett Kavanaugh Really Lie to Congress?
The fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s White House records is producing one of the most contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearings in a generation. Thursday’s session began with Republican senators...
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How the Left Lost Brazil
In the twilight of his life, 72-year-old former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was expected to be enjoying the fruits of his labor, basking in the glory that comes with leading his...
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Shakespeare Joins the Resistance
In 2011, Kevin Spacey played Richard III at the Old Vic in London. Director Sam Mendes put his actors in contemporary dress. Spacey wore fringed epaulettes in the style of Muammar Gaddafi, playing...
View ArticleHow Brexit Became a Political Circus
In early July, Theresa May summoned her cabinet to Chequers, the British prime minister’s country residence 40 miles from Downing Street, where Churchill used to escape from the Blitz to plan the war...
View ArticleWho Gets to Be a Nobel Prize Winner?
Of all the human endeavors that lend themselves to cinematic depiction, the act of writing—as opposed, say, to painting or playing music—has always seemed to me the most difficult to portray. The...
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Overdose and Punishment
The evening before Chad Baker died, his fiancée, Katie Offenburger, came home from her job as an account manager at a credit card company, let the dog out, and smoked a cigarette on the back porch of...
View ArticleDo Conservatives Know Much About Conservative History?
Writing in Politico on Sunday, historian Geoffrey Kabaservice argued that liberals, and particularly liberal historians, have done conservatism a profound disservice in recent decades. Under the...
View ArticleHe Was the Resistance Inside the Obama Administration
Last week, in an anonymous New York Times op-ed, a senior Trump official attempted to reassure the public that members of the administration were actively impeding their boss’s wishes. One member of...
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