In all the media coverage of Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban and the accompanying cacophony of Islamophobic...
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This is an expanded version of the op-ed I published in the Seattle Times several days ago,...
Rabbi Leonard Beerman z”l, one of America’s greatest rabbis, died yesterday at the age of 93 after...
The post title is, of course, meant ironically. What does Israel have to teach the U.S., except...
Defense Minister Bogie Yaalon, a devout adherent of settler ideology, has been persona non grata for the...
To lose both Pete Seeger and Shulamit Aloni in the same week: the world seems an especially...
The Israel Democracy Institute released its latest Democracy Index (summary and full findings), which I’ve covered here...
The Economist’s 2012 Democracy Index (access may require site registration, which is free) ranks Israel 37th among...
Not content with dispossessing nearly 1 million Israeli Palestinians during the Nakba through exile and theft of...
In Israel, the intelligence apparatus is sacrosanct. Among the many things you can’t do is publicly name...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict can do a “number” on intellectuals. It can whipsaw them from left to right...
Gary Tobin, the late and renowned Jewish demographer, founded an academic institute before his untimely death in...