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Is Zionism patriotism or racism? Big disagreements over a word in use for 125 years
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 month agoGraffiti at the Powell Library on the UCLA campus. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) In the...
On its 75th birthday, Israel still can't agree on what it means to be a Jewish state and a democracy
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoUnder a portrait of Theodor Herzl, David Ben-Gurion on May 14, 1948, declares the establishment of a...
Jewish critics of Zionism have clashed with American Jewish leaders for decades
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAmerican foreign aid to Israel has long relied on the support of American Jews. But American Jews...
Temple Emanu-El Palm Beach to host theatrical presentation by actor/writer Rob Tepper
Gannett via AOL· 3 months agoA free program at Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach on Sunday will feature a theatrical presentation by...
Has Zionism Lost the Argument?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 4 months agoDissident is an unpaid position, Steve Naman told me this fall. The 77-year-old resident of suburban Atlanta is the longtime president (and accountant,...
A brief history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict
The Independent via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe modern state of Israel was founded in May 1948 in the aftermath of the Holocaust and Second World War but the conflict that has raged between...
Forget Palestine – the Jewish homeland was nearly in Texas
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIn the preface to Melting Point, Rachel Cockerell writes of her dislike for books that claim to be...
Israel’s army exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox are part of a bigger challenge: The Jewish state is...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIsraeli police scuffle with ultra-Orthodox Jews as they block a main road in Jerusalem during an...
Yes, Israel Is a Colonialist State. But Does That Matter Today?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAs still another war rages between Hamas in Gaza and Israel, a debate has revived between critics...
Faith Works: Debts and appreciations and an anniversary
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen it comes to the question of why we did something, even something in retrospect looking like a...