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Seth Winberg

Young Jews who support a binational state aren't all anti-Zionist

A survey showing high youth support for a one-state solution expresses something other than rejection of Israel

Illustrative. From 'Victory O Lord!' by John Everett Millais, 1871, depicts Moses holding up his arms during the Battle of Rephidim, assisted by Hur (left) and Aaron. (Wikipedia)

Amanda Goldstein

What cancer taught me about the desert

When God mapped out a hard route, did Moses ever stop to ask, ‘Are You sure they need to hear all of this?’ Does advance notice hurt or help? (Matos/Masai)

The wreckage of burnt ambulances is seen in a car park at Golders Green in London, March 23, 2026, after an arson attack targeting the vehicles, which were run by a Jewish charity. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Michael Jacobson

A ceasefire won’t end Iran’s terror war on Europe

Even if US-Iran talks resume, Tehran will keep sending its proxies to commit attacks and buy weapons. European governments must crack down harder

Shayna Goldberg

The voice that carried a brother home

Ilay David told his brother Evyatar’s story to the White House, the UN, and the world; since the hostages’ return, he’s embodied long-term resilience in unexpected ways

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Raphael Wahl

Israel, you are spending our love like it’s infinite

After a lifetime of loyalty, I find myself standing at a distance, watching Israel’s government waste 70 years of Diaspora goodwill

A mapping project in the New York Times shows how Americans describe their ancestry or family origin. (New York Times, Mapbox, via JTA)

Andrew Silow-Carroll

A New York Times map tells America’s immigration story. Where are the Jews?

Jewish people moved to the US from all over, but census data erased their unique contributions to America, and the NYT should have acknowledged them

Relatives and acquaintances hold pictures of hostages and missing persons during a meeting on behalf of hostages abducted from Israel by terrorists on October 7, 2023, at the French National Assembly, in Paris, on October 31, 2023. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand / AFP)

Dana Blander

A political commission of inquiry won’t truly investigate – or heal

A coalition-controlled inquiry would predetermine both the investigators and the conclusions, deepening divisions instead of helping Israel confront October 7

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Jul 11, 2026, 5:44 PM

Openness is Not the Absence of Conviction

Here's the irony. The very people defending Reform Judaism's commitment to openness sometimes seem uncomfortable when someone asks whether Reform Judaism itself still stands for anything. I think it does. In fact, I think it must. Because a movement that asks nothing of...

Jul 11, 2026, 5:40 PM

Israel’s Last Hope

I made aliyah with my wife and two children in 1985. I didn't go to Israel because I was looking for a job or in search of a mid-life change. I was the rabbi of a flourishing congregation in...

Jul 11, 2026, 5:30 PM

Zionism or the History of Silencing

Silencing, In Other Words (gemini.ai generated)

"Zionism," she said, "a nice idea." She laughed in that recognizable way she had. A stranger would mistakenly accept her laugh as genuine. But not a stranger, I was not sadly surprised by her next sentence, "It failed." If I...

Jul 11, 2026, 5:27 PM

Hardly Anything Left to Protect: Day 2 of Protective Presence

On Thursday I traveled to the West Bank with Alon, a young guy who’s pursuing a PHD in the USA and is just in Israel on a visit. We both met in Givatayim to pick up a car that...

Sheldon Kirshner

Jul 11, 2026, 5:23 PM

The Graham Platner Fiasco

Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee who was contesting the US Senate race in Maine, was a problematic candidate from the very start, yet his blatant shortcomings were willfully dismissed or ignored by the powers that be in his party. As...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jul 11, 2026, 2:35 PM

When disagreement becomes a deficiency

When disagreement becomes a deficiency, someone else is already paying the bill.

Concept, caption and editorial direction: Yochanan Schimmelpfennig. Illustration created with OpenAI image generation.

Rabbi Seth Winberg deserves credit for refusing the easiest accusation. The fact that many young American Jews support a binational state does not automatically mean that they hate Israel, reject Jewish collective existence or have joined an anti-Zionist crusade....

Jul 11, 2026, 2:33 PM

Where have the Kramers been lately?

It’s been a year since war started with Iran. At that time we were on a river cruise on the Danube. When the cruise ended several days later, we disembarked in Nuremberg and flew the same day to Athens,...

Jul 11, 2026, 2:08 PM

Smart diplomacy can make Turkey and Qatar part of the solution

Credit: Reuterss

Last week, US President Trump, who maintains close relations with Turkish President Erdoğan, attended a NATO summit in Istanbul. Israelis struggle to accept the close relationship between Trump and Erdogan, refusing to understand that it goes beyond the connection...

Jul 11, 2026, 1:52 PM

Pew Data Warning: 62% Unfavorable, 1 in 8 Support Hamas

The latest Pew Research Center data is more than a mere sociological trend; it is a strategic warning flare that cannot be ignored. With one in eight young Americans expressing a favorable view of Hamas, and the Israeli government’s...

Jul 11, 2026, 1:26 PM

Germany is finally confronting the public denial of Israel’s right to exist

The German Bundesrat. (Photo courtesy of Bundesrat Press Office)

Germany has tolerated a legal loophole for far too long, one that antisemites have repeatedly exploited. But on July 10, 2026, the Bundesrat, the upper house representing Germany's sixteen state governments, finally moved to resolve it. The Bundesrat backed a...

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