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Banning anti-Zionist rabbis is the enlightened and liberal position - opinion

Enlightenment philosophers envisioned open, tolerant societies. But they understood that a community without boundaries is as doomed as a language without grammar.

|ByGIL TROY
Re-CHARGING Reform Judaism conference on May 31, 2023
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My Word: When pride meets prejudice - opinion

What began as a language dispute turns into a broader question of national pride, belonging, and resilience.

|ByLIAT COLLINS
People wave Iranian flags and signs condemning the war on Iran as they march past the Eisenhower Executive Building during a protest in Washington, DC, on February 28, 2026.

Iranian expats face the same awakening Jews felt after October 7 - opinion

Iranian expats expected support for their struggle. Instead, many in the West defended the regime they fled.

|ByMICAH HALPERN
Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir walks inside the Knesset, on the day US President Donald Trump delivers remarks, in Jerusalem, October 13, 2025.

Moral, legal issues with Israel’s terrorist death penalty - opinion

Ben-Gvir’s law treats non-Jewish lives as unequal, risking Israel’s moral and global standing.

|ByYITZ GREENBERG

Liberal Americans in Israel: From familiar crisis to a new vision - opinion

Torn between their liberal ideals and their deep-rooted connection to Israel, liberal Americans in Israel got caught in a crossfire, as both of their peer groups demanded them to “take sides.”

FEBRUARY 16, 2025ByROTEM OREG-KALISKY
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Over 30 liberal Jewish groups sign statement defending DEI as an ‘invaluable tool’

The statement acknowledges that opposition to DEI isn’t limited to conservatives but says Jews should not give up on DEI.

FEBRUARY 8, 2025ByBEN SALES/JTA
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Canada's Trudeau to step down after new Liberal party leader named

Trudeau, 53, took office in November 2015 and won reelection twice, becoming one of Canada's longest-serving prime ministers.

JANUARY 6, 2025ByREUTERS
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to reporters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, January 6, 2025

Calling the attacks in the Dutch capital antisemitic is burying our heads in the sand - opinion

From Amsterdam to Sderot, the ideology is the same. It is a deep-rooted hatred for any expression of democratic and liberal values.

NOVEMBER 18, 2024ByALON DAVIDI
THE WRITER speaks at a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in September. Hatred of Jews is a central component of radical Islam’s rhetoric, but it is merely part of a greater objective – destabilizing the free world order, he maintains.

Israel haters have too much faith in humanity - opinion

In their worldview, it cannot be that human beings are capable of such atrocities on their own; it must be a reaction to even graver crimes committed by others.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024ByMOSHE TARAGIN
RADICAL HUMANISTS believe so deeply in man’s inherent goodness that they struggle to acknowledge the existence of evil. Pictured: A child.

Extreme left-wing billionaires George and Alex Soros endorse Kamala Harris

George and Alex Soros back Kamala Harris after Biden exits the 2024 race, calling for unity against Trump. Their endorsement sparks new debates on political influence.

JULY 22, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Billionaire investor George Soros attends the Schumpeter Award in Vienna, Austria June 21, 2019.

Finding the balance: What Jewish law teaches us about avoiding political extremes? - opinion

The liberals are cursing the conservatives; the conservatives are cursing the liberals. Accusations from friends and congregants alike, seeing only the other at fault, blind to our own shortcomings.

JULY 15, 2024ByHYIM SHAFNER
SCULPTURE OF medieval Jewish scholar and later chief rabbi of Egypt, Moshe ben-Maimon, displayed in the city of his birth, Cordoba, Spain. The writer explains that according to Maimonides, the path of the wise is the ‘middle path.’

For Western students, Israel is a code word for US imperialism - opinion

American and European institutions of higher learning harbor academics promoting the idea of the West as a sinful civilization, irremediably guilty of the most horrific crimes.

JULY 10, 2024ByMICHAEL PARTEM
A PROTESTER waves a Palestinian flag at a rally outside MIT’s Stata Center in May in Cambridge, Massachusetts. American and European institutes of higher learning harbor academics who promote the West as a sinful civilization, says the writer.

Supporting Hamas is regressive not progressive - opinion

These students are rioting on their university campuses not because they care deeply about Palestinians; most couldn’t even point Gaza out on a map

MAY 7, 2024ByDOMINIQUE HOFFMAN
STUDENTS CAMP out at the Diag at the University of Michigan, last month. These students are not only calling for divestment from Israel, but also from US ‘imperialism,’ the writer asserts.

In her new book, Batya Ungar-Sargon speaks on why Jews need to rethink their alliances

Her new book applies to Jews and Israel, especially post-October 7 when American Jews were stunned by their progressive peers.

APRIL 13, 2024ByAMY KLEIN
A rally in support of Israel that took place in November in Washington. Israel should inspire American Jews to focus less on what they have been doing - defense - and shift to what they have not been doing - attack, says the writer.