Leave a Seat or Two Empty This Seder
We must improvise a new ritual that marks our present pain, that illustrates our vital connection with Israel and Israelis today.
We must improvise a new ritual that marks our present pain, that illustrates our vital connection with Israel and Israelis today.
The many pressures so many American Jews are under only made me appreciate my Los Angeles welcome even more.
They’re giving Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran propaganda victories they don’t deserve, weakening Israel and America, and holding Israel to standards America and other democracies never meet.
Focus on the overwhelming majority of the American people still appalled by October 7, who understand that the only way to prevent another calamity is by crushing Hamas militarily.
While the challenges are serious – and the underlying trends daunting – we must not despair. Even those who disagree should read this book, to start the deep, reflective, post-October 7 rethink we need.
Zionism can offer a way forward to address academia’s growing abandonment of cherished liberal values.
You students need tremendous spiritual courage to embrace Israel and Zionism on campus. The fact that you get the opposite – cold shoulders, social ostracism, online hostility, even harassment – increasingly requires physical courage, too.
America’s need for a robust higher education system, where students learn to think deeply, engage respectfully, and disagree constructively, is greater than ever.
555 Jewish Physicians from the University of Toronto have condemned discrimination against Jews and proudly proclaimed their Zionism. American professors should follow.
Clearly, the Palestinians and their propagandists have developed a whole lexicon, a series of talking points and slogans that distorts words, negates history, and obscures Palestinian intentions. Israel went along with these lies for too long.