Liberal

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
Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir walks inside the Knesset, on the day US President Donald Trump delivers remarks, in Jerusalem, October 13, 2025.
An illustrative image of a reporter for Army Radio (Galei Tzahal) taken in 2019.

Growing contradictions at the heart of Israel’s liberal camp - opinion

Israeli liberal leaders push policies that clash with democratic principles, showing differing ways of how they treat different communities.

|ByYISRAEL MEDAD
Palestinian port authority holds passports of passengers to show the press that they are leaving Gaza legally.

Liberal Zionist groups criticize Trump’s travel ban on those with Palestinian Authority passports

The White House said the ban was needed because “several US-designated terrorist groups operate actively in the West Bank or Gaza Strip and have murdered American citizens.”

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
THE KNESSET plenum meets this week. Israel’s rules of the game are not anchored in a constitution and can be changed by a simple Knesset majority, the writer notes.

Thin constitution needed to stabilize the government amid political crisis - opinion

Israel’s political future depends on adopting a thin constitution that prioritizes stability, fairness, and compromise, ensuring democratic governance amid internal divisions.

|ByYEDIDIA STERN

Is this Jewish podcaster the progressive answer to Ben Shapiro?

Howard Stern loves him. Donald Trump Jr. hates him. David Pakman takes a balanced view on Israel, weighing each case on its merits, and briefly got the better of Ben Shapiro.

JULY 21, 2023ByALAN ZEITLIN
DAVID PAKMAN holds a challah – and his daughter.

Women of the Wall have become an oppositional force - opinion

Even if initially their intentions could be viewed with some positivity, today they have become an oppositional body.

JULY 20, 2023ByCHAGIT MOSHE
Women of the Wall celebrate after regrouping at the Egalitarian Section of the Western Wall in 2019.

Israel's biggest issues are settlers, haredi birthrate, liberals leaving - opinion

This scenario is too horrifying to contemplate, so most Israelis do not. Yet Israel has the classic characteristics of societies that are at risk of civil war.

JULY 14, 2023ByDAN PERRY
IDF SOLDIERS STAND close to the scene of an attack by a Palestinian assailant near Neve Tzuf, in the West Bank, on Tuesday.

How reality surprised theory in the reform protests - opinion

Under certain conditions, not only is there no contradiction but, on the contrary, nationalistic loyalty strengthens the commitment to liberal and democratic values.

JUNE 18, 2023ByDANIEL STATMAN
MEMBERS OF the Brothers in Arms reservist movement meet with the media in Tel Aviv, in March.

The Palestinian flag should not be a contentious symbol - opinion

In the center of the group were several people holding the black, white, green and red Palestinian flags.

JUNE 1, 2023ByGERSHON BASKIN
AMID THE more than 10,000 protesters was a group of about 200 Israeli Jews surrounding a large sign that said: ‘First they took the Palestinian flag and I didn’t speak out.'

World Zionist Congress adopts resolutions against Israel's judicial reform

The World Zionist Organization concluded a three day online voting procedure, on proposals that were suggested at the special World Zionist Congress last month.

MAY 24, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
World Zionist Organization executive chairman Yaakov Hagoel at the 125th anniversary event for the First Zionist Congress.

The awakening of the Fifth Sector in Israel - opinion

Some call it the State of Tel Aviv and assumed that it has more loyalty toward Silicon Valley, the editorial stance of The New York Times, and post-modern ideas than Israel.

MAY 14, 2023ByDANIEL GOLDMAN
A PROTEST against the government’s planned judicial overhaul takes place in Tel Aviv, in March. Did Prime Minister Netanyahu underestimate the response of the Start-Up Nation?

Two of UK’s progressive Jewish movements announced a merger

Reform Judaism sees itself as a movement that is traditional but up-to-date with modernity. Liberal Judaism in the UK is quite similar but has become more radical and modern.

APRIL 18, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy.

Liberal American Jews, you need to support dialogue in Israel - opinion

Relations between American Jews and Israel have also been subjected to these rising tensions when compromises seem unachievable and the concept of the common good is eroded.

APRIL 2, 2023ByDAVID BARAK-GORODETSKY
A DEMONSTRATION takes place outside the US Embassy Branch in Tel Aviv against the government’s judicial overhaul and in support of President Joe Biden’s criticism of the plan, on Thursday.

Conservativism vs liberalism, past vs present wrongs - opinion

Liberalism takes the past more seriously than conservatism.

MARCH 27, 2023ByDAVE ANDERSON
THE US and Israeli flags fly at Ben-Gurion Airport ahead of President Joe Biden’s arrival in July. The writer asks: ‘How will young Americans view Israel’s relationship with the US – a strategic asset, or a threat?’