The trauma of the Temple’s destruction, the foreboding, is always in our consciousness. But that doesn’t mean we should worship at the Third Temple of…
Posts published in “Jews in America”
In America, fascism is rising. And all our talk about the Holocaust, that it would ward off bigotry, hatred, and totalitarianism, all our museums, memorials,…
How to distinguish between the American Jewish moderate majority and the far left on Israel, the occupation and the Palestinians Source: https://www.haaretz.com
For Jews, what is more offensive – and more threatening? Today’s philosemitic Evangelicals, some with their venomous takes on Israel’s new government, or yesteryear’s Christian…
Self-absorbed, sanctimonious and often superficial, the American Jewish left is alienated from the real-life struggle for justice in Israel and Palestine. And its refusal to…
Israel’s new coalition has ruptured the fantasies, myths and facile takes that have sheltered American Jews in their hasbarist or anti-Zionist comfort zones for so…
The world is finally talking about the Palestinians. Will it last? And how far will it go? Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Remarks by former Israeli ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, to the effect that Israel should invest more in fostering ties with evangelicals than…
The myth that Israel can’t survive without American military ‘aid’ animates the identities of U.S. Jews from left to right. It’s time to cut it…
J Street should be consolidating the Democratic mainstream towards two states and an end to the occupation. So why is it backing a dangerous, outlier…
The far-right Jewish extremists rampaging violently against Palestinians are backed by a complex network of funding sources in both Israel and the United States. It’s…
America needs an open, honest discussion about why it still funnels billions of U.S. taxpayers’ dollars to Israel, a wealthy, developed country that routinely violates…
Israel’s relationship with the U.S. has rarely been in such danger, write three former heads of its national security and intelligence agencies. With an Iran…
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Tucker Carlson’s outlier views on Israel concern Jewish conservatives. But they agree with him about the illegal immigration crisis, even if his language sometimes echoes…
Backing racist voting laws and Tucker Carlson’s replacement conspiracies, author, venture capitalist and now populist ‘hero’ J.D. Vance is campaigning for a white American volk.…
In the wake of Trump’s fall, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has risen to become a full-on GOP hero. But his isolationism on Iran, and…
Israel’s Law of Return entrenches Jewish exceptionalism, suffocates democracy and empowers a grotesquely theocratic and discriminatory view of citizenship. American Jews should oppose it Source:…