Facing Reality
In The Lions’ Den, Susie Linfield studies eight Jewish leftists’ views on Israel but fails to confront her own liberal Zionist preconceptions.
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What Could Have Been
On Father of the Bride, Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig speaks to the crisis of Jewish identity in the shadow of Zionism's broken promises.
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An Opportunity for Jews to Reconsider Our Trauma
The JVP statement asks Jews to make new meaning out of our losses.
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The American Jewish Army that Never Was
A new work chronicles the attempts by Zionist leaders to raise an American Jewish army to fight Hitler.
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A Nation Like All Others: Gershom Scholem and the Paradox of Zionism
How one people’s “independence” became another’s catastrophe.
Read MoreThe Uncivil Servant: Where the Hell Did We Come From?
by Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: The Origin of the Jews, by Steven Weitzman. Princeton University Press, 2017, 408 pages. AT THE END of Steven Weitzman’s Origin of the Jews, a scholarly but eminently accessible account of the search for the origin of the Jews (which we should not confuse with their beginnings), the […]
Read MoreWarning: Irrationality
BUT RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISTS AREN’T THE ONLY PROBLEM By Alan Rutkowski AN UNAPPRECIATED but dangerous consequence of the Trump era is widespread liberal/secular oversimplification of the emerging danger. In their attacks on religion, for example, the so-called New Atheists — Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens (RIP), and Sam Harris — have fostered the notion that […]
Read MoreFrom NYC to Tel Aviv: Becoming Israeli, Staying Progressive
A Q&A WITH HILLEL SCHENKER by Ron Skolnik BORN IN BROOKLYN, New York, in 1942, journalist Hillel Schenker arrived by boat in Israel in November 1963. Since the 1970s, he has been a major participant in the Israeli peace movement, including as a co-founder of Peace Now, and today serves as Israeli co-editor of the […]
Read MoreThe Bund Is Gone, But Its Anti-Zionist Critique Remains
by Ralph Seliger ALTHOUGH I define myself as a (leftwing) Zionist, I was drawn to a YIVO seminar in New York on the Jewish Workers’ Bund, the famously non-Zionist radical socialist movement that began in Russia in 1897, the same year that Theodor Herzl launched the World Zionist Organization. CUNY political scientist Jack Jacobs led […]
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