For the past month or so, I’ve inadvertently been focussing my blogging on the general issue of...
Richard Silverstein
Silverstein is an independent journalist and has published Tikun Olam since 2003. It exposes the secrets of the Israeli national security state. He publishes regularly at the New Arab, and Jacobin Magazine. His work has also appeared in Al Jazeera English, The Nation, Truthout and other outlets.
I often defend J Street from my readers who accuse it of being “Aipac lite.” But I...
David Abitbol is jealous. If he drank, you’d call him “a mean drunk.” And like a mean...
They burned Joan of Arc at the stake. They wrapped Rabbi Haninah in a Torah scroll and...
Lately J Street has made a few lame political decisions, one of them being joining with Stand...
The Jewish blogosphere has won another victory for decency. The leadership of the South African Jewish community...
NPR featured a music review of an inspiring piece of music, Luminosity, by James Whitbourn. One of...
Ynetnews reports that Israeli extremists have defaced the home of Anat Kamm’s parents in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood...
An Israeli journalist offered me a telling story about the damage and pain that the cult of...
When I first read that the leadership of the South African Jewish community including its chief rabbi...
Eli Clifton writes that Clarion Fund‘s new anti-Iran film is to be called (quite creatively) Iranium. I...
Im Tirtzu’s rightist onslaught against Israeli liberals continues with a new uber-maudlin flag-waver performed by Mizrahi pop...






