Israeli police indicate that Avigdor Lieberman’s indictment is near. For months, rumors have swirled about charges 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.
In this blog, we’ve been having a lively debate about the nature of gay life in Israel...
American Jews ought to know what Israel’s most extreme settlers are saying about our president. And they...
In the midst of the controversy over the Seattle Jewish federation letter sent to Kadima denouncing its...
There is a gradual process underway within Israeli military, intelligence and political circles which will lead to...
Finally, I have secured the full Seattle Jewish federation letter attacking Kadima just before it hosted Palestinian...
My wife’s grandfather was Eli Freeman, who was born in the Ukraine around 1895. He came to...
I have often half-jokingly written here that Israeli nationalists and apologists will only be truly happy with...
If Tablet Magazine is to be believed, the Jewish world has come a long way baby because...
Last week, a local progressive Jewish congregation, Kadima, hosted a Shabbat talk by Canon Naim Ateek, the...
This is how the pros do it and the Clinton/Obama folk are pros, make no mistake: The...
In yet another incident in which the wealthy, powerful, tired old American Jewish leadership tries to tell...






