It’s the great Zionist anomaly of today: 74 years ago, in 1948, Israel was fragile, but the Zionist conversation was robust; today, Israel is robust — but the Zionist conversation has turned fragile. 

I am fascinated by your decision (with your Bible too), to use the word rational ... on one level, I get it, the message is that this tradition is reasonable and relevant — and in a world that is too dismissive of our ancient yet still timely teachings, I get it.

Israel supporters living thousands of miles away may think they cannot help, but they can. Terrorism is a bloody mind game wherein psychological resilience helps quash the physical violence.

Viewing race or gender or any identity dimension too rigidly reflects a more worrisome trend of treating politics as a game of absolutes – be it from the Left or the Right.

The public conversation about American history has been deadlocked for more than two years.

One of the Jewish people’s great synthesizers has died at the age of 95. 

Throughout the social and political conflicts, Birthright-Israel has remained a delightfully counter-cultural and non-partisan organization.

This new blood libel isn’t really about race and apartheid, it’s simply the slur-du-jour.

All over the Jewish world, people like me were standing up and going public, not just to defend our people — but to celebrate us.

Pomerantz and I part ways in two critical junctures.

"The key question remains: what’s your Jewish motherboard, your non-negotiable, your red line, your identity anchor?"

Although these incidents highlight our emotional vulnerability, they also demonstrate our two democracies’ resilience.

While “The Poetry of Secrets” helps us understand oppression, it is never the downer it could be.

While the pain of the testimonials about racial discrimination is searing and demanding our attention, and while some of the essays were more hopeful about healing, many of these materials were not invitations to thoughtful discussion, but to a reprogramming.

Wilkerson sees her focus on caste as an X-ray, illuminating the invisible, unchanging dimensions of American life.

We must avoid the partisan bully’s orthodoxies and oversimplifications.

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In June, the Reform movement decided to resist the headlines announcing the growing, “unprecedented” rupture between American Jewry and Israel by doubling-down on “our...