israel/palestine

When I started reading Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic: Why Islam Needs A Reformation Now, I kept returning to the front cover just to be sure I wasn’t accidentally reading one of her previous books. Once…

We’ve left the two-state solution long behind—let’s not ignore other possibilities for peace.

My university is not a battleground.

Merav Michaeli, the Israeli journalist-turned-politician now serving in the Knesset as a member of the opposition Labor Party, is an antidote to the lament of the death of liberal Zionism. At a time…

Even if we haven’t listened, every generation of evangelicals and fundamentalists says it: Their apocalyptic theology makes them more active not less.

A university tests the not-always-holy waters.

Is Jerusalem seeing a “religious war?” A day after last Tuesday’s terrorist attack that killed four worshippers in a Jerusalem synagogue, Amos Harel wrote in Haaretz that the “attack reinforces the…

On Capitol Hill yesterday, a glorious fall afternoon, John Cougar Mellencamp’s ” R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” and the Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ U.S.A.” blared from a stage designed for a photo opportunity for a…

A close look at scripture challenges Elie Wiesel’s narcissistic new tale of exceptionalism.

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.