May 21, 2013 8:51 am Jack Garfein: Strange, wild, triumphant On the evenings of Sunday, May 26, and Monday, May 27, the Tel Aviv Cinematheque – to be followed by the Cinematheques in Haifa and Jerusalem on each of......
November 11, 2012 4:08 am Getting past the polarizing toxicity of the US elections While much of the commentary on the results of the just-completed American presidential election has focused on the demographics of the electorate, very little has been said about the......
September 30, 2012 12:43 am The state of anti-Semitism — Yom Kippur musings While sitting in my synagogue in a Chicago suburb on Yom Kippur, my thoughts turned to another synagogue, in Malmo, Sweden, where I had been a bit over a...... 1
August 23, 2012 12:28 am A call to forge a Zionist narrative for our time One hundred and ten years since Herzl’s "Altneuland" was published, nearly 65 years since the founding of the modern State of Israel fulfilled its key prophecy, and some two decades...... 33