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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.

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

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

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


Top Jewish Democrat: Netanyahu, Dermer wrong to defend Trump on antisemitism

Ron Klein came to Israel to meet with government leaders and opinion settlers.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump at Ben Gurion airport on May 23, 2017

Liberals have to stop abetting ‘the jackals’

A MAN holds two flags as demonstrators at a 2014 pro-Palestinian rally march across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City

The American liberalism that failed

Our brothers, the liberal Jews in the United States, are in the eye of the storm and take a most visible position in the campaign against President Trump and the conservatives.

An American Jew wearing a kippa embroidered with the US and Israeli flags attends a Hanukka reception at the White House last year

When a blinding echo chamber stifles diversity of thought

When New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote about the dangers of “liberal intolerance,” the notion seemed inconceivable, no longer.

The sun peaks over the New York Times Building in New York August 14, 2013

Senate's vote to advance Kavanaugh polarizes liberal and conservative Jews

The groups against the decision were the National Council of Jewish Women and the Reform movement. Those praising the vote included the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Coalition for Jewish Values

US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, September 27, 2018

Conservative National-Religious org. attacks liberal groups over funding

“We are saying ‘enough’ to the whitewashing of the NIF amongst the National-Religious community,” said Amital Bareli, director of Chotam.

Jennifer Gorovitz, VP of the New Israel Fund

Sweden’s prophet

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Judaism under attack: The Orwellian hijack of tikkun olam

THE PRINCIPAL value of Judaism is justice itself (with compassion a close second). Contemporary “social” justice, however, hijacks the word and evacuates it of meaning.

A charming moment by the Kotel.

The Nation-State Law: The first serving of the ‘New Israel’

The central argument does not focus anymore on the division of land, but on the character of the State of Israel.

The Knesset votes on the nation-state bill, July 19, 2018

Just married

“Why don’t they have the entire ceremony out of doors? Isn’t it a mitzva to hold the huppa under the stars?” Lianne asked, stuffing a forkful of shrimps into her mouth.

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