Peter Buchsbaum, at The Blogs

Sep 1, 2024, 6:16 PM

Palestinians inspect the damage outside Gaza's Shifa hospital after the Israeli military withdrew from the complex housing the hospital on April 1, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

The media still does not get Israel. When 12 Druze in a school playground were killed by Hezbollah, The New York Times carried the story as an attack on the Israeli-held village. It did not even hint that such...

Mar 19, 2024, 10:29 AM

Returning from a mission to Israel

Where to begin? Just back from a 5-day working mission to Israel with the Jewish National Fund-USA. The mission leadership was magnificent. We did hard work pulling up irrigation hoses, weeding, painting, and carpentry in the Schlomit village near...

Mar 7, 2024, 6:35 PM

The State of Israel shall live

I leave for Israel on a JNF mission soon. So, I devoured the NY Times Sunday Op. ed about Israel being more of a fortress than a home now. The essay originally in Hebrew by an Israeli writer, David...

Dec 21, 2023, 7:28 PM

Together

At this past weekend's 150th Anniversary of the Union for Reform Judaism in Washington, DC, the narrator, CNN's Dana Bash, asked her co-narrator, David Gregory, "Why is Judaism an ellipse, not a circle?" Gregory laughed and replied, "I haven't...

Nov 8, 2023, 11:29 AM

Truth in Teaching?

A woman carries a white flag with a group of Palestinians fleeing Gaza City to the southern Gaza Strip on Salah al-Din street in Bureij, November 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Is the antisemitic virulence on some campuses encouraged by teachers who provide inaccurate and biased accounts of the history of Zionism and the creation of Israel in 1948? In a recent column in The New York Times, editorialist Michelle Goldberg...

Oct 27, 2023, 5:23 PM

It never ends

Yair Lapid has laid out the disdain for Israel on the left in his just published blog post. How many dead are needed to convince the so called activists that Israel has a right to exist and defend itself....

Oct 22, 2023, 2:36 PM

Sadness but cannot be helpless

I had a brief career as an active-duty soldier, serving for 4 months in 1971. I learned enough even in that brief time to know now that Hamas has been committing war crimes for over 20 with nary a...

Jul 25, 2023, 2:09 PM

Israel is not America

One thing we keep hearing as defense to the proposals to neuter the Israeli judiciary is: Well, we’re only following the American model where justices are chosen by political bodies, courts do not rule on reasonableness, and decisions of our...

Jan 25, 2023, 6:43 PM

For the sake of Israel – Make your voices heard

Over 100,000 people protest against the proposed changes to the justice system in Tel Aviv, on January 21, 2023. (Flash90)

Israel is in turmoil, over a hundred thousand Israelis demonstrated Saturday night. The Supreme Court’s Chief Justice has sounded the alarm that the planned new government’s moves regarding Israel’s legal system are not ‘reform,’ but attempts to end judicial...

Dec 1, 2022, 5:28 PM

North American lawyers address the new government

Photo of inner courtyard of Israel Supreme Court building by Dr. Avishai Teicher (source: Wikipedia)

On November 30th, 2022, the Jewish Pluralism Legal Action Network (JPLAN), a group I helped found, issued a statement respecting the prospective new government in Israel. At this point, the coalition agreements are taking shape. There are some reports...

About Me

Peter Buchsbaum is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Law School. He clerked for Joseph Weintraub, Chief Justice of NJ and served as a Judge of the NJ Superior Court from 2004 to 2013 after a career as prominent municipal land use lawyer. Peter has been listed in Who's Who in America for over 25 years. Today, he sits on the WUPJ North American Advisory Board and Co-chairs its Legacy Committee Chairs. He has been an officer of Har Sinai Temple in Pennington, NJ; and he is a co-founder of J-PLAN (the Jewish Pluralism Legal Action Network), which advocates for marriage equality in Israel.

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