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That’s a question that has been discussed quite a bit lately, as liberal Zionists raise red flags about right-ward, anti-democratic trends in Israel, as well as Operation Protective Edge. In a…

This week’s global LGBT justice roundup, with a focus on Africa.

The polarization of American Jews has increased with each large-scale eruption of fighting between Israel and Palestinians. With each escalation there has been a shift of pro-two-state solution activists to the left; at the same time, though, the right becomes strengthened and entrenched.

Nothing is as conducive to global radical mobilization as an exclusive theological summons.

“As a Muslim Bangladeshi, social media has transported me across the world…”

For decades, Jewish leaders outside of Israel have publicly supported the Israeli government, but they have expressed regret for the souls lost on both sides. Is that rhetoric changing?

Via Emily Hauser, I was alerted to this Joint Statement on Israel and Gaza by Imam Mohamed Magid and Rabbi Michael G. Holzman. Magid is the president of the Islamic Society of North America, and…

Human rights groups methodically tally each man, woman and child killed in Gaza (797 as of this writing, most of them civilians, 5,100 wounded), while the media arm of the Israeli Defense Forces…

Five things happened to our ancestors of the 17 th of Tammuz and five things happened on the 9 th day of Av. On the 17 th of Tammuz the tablets of the law were broken, the daily temple sacrifice was…

On Monday, as I watched the press conference held by the family of Tariq Abu Khdeir, a 15 year-old American citizen who was brutally beaten and detained, without charge, by Israeli Border Police in…