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Oct 1, 2025, 8:46 PM

Turn! Turn! Turn!

As the Ten Days of Teshuva come to a close, the Jewish people stand at a diplomatic crossroads. For two years, an open wound has bled daily. The hostages are not home. Too many IDF soldiers have come home...

Sep 20, 2025, 1:19 AM

Ki Ain Banu Ma’asim

Gaza City is burning. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are caught in the crossfire between the IDF and what remains of Hamas with nowhere to go. No escape from the devastation. We are in the last week of Elul, the holy...

Aug 30, 2025, 12:41 AM

A Painful Teshuva for a Broken Congress

In his acclaimed book for the High Holy Days, Rabbi Alan Lew tells us, “The nature of our pain points us to the nature of the transformation we need to make.” As we embrace the month of Elul, when we...

May 2, 2025, 11:36 PM

Our Zionist Dream

One year ago, ANU was just a dream – a flicker of an idea tucked between the pages of Zionist texts in my library. I was searching for inspiration, for a platform that could support a new kind of...

Feb 5, 2025, 5:42 AM

What are we talking about when we talk about transfer?

The notion of population transfer as part of either a short-term or long-term solution for Gaza has reared its ugly head again. It is being promoted by right-wing and centrist voices in Israel. It is also being advanced by...

Jan 22, 2013, 7:44 AM

The Most Hardline Government in Israeli History

We wield words like weapons. We accuse writers of bias, reporters of journalistic malpractice, and citizens - of certain countries - of criminal behavior on a national scale. But we rarely stop the rushing train of accusations long enough...

Oct 15, 2012, 8:22 PM

Primary sources

Every night after I've brushed my teeth, flossed, and turned on the classical music to which I go to sleep, I read a a primary source selection from The Zionist Idea or The Jew in the Modern World. It...

Oct 7, 2012, 4:29 PM

Identity, interrupted

I don't understand why the news is filled with fear-mongering about our foreign enemies while our dissolving Jewish identity is swept under the rug

Sep 29, 2012, 1:20 AM

The Speech Bibi Could Have Given

As my Twitter feed exploded with mockery and support for Netanyahu's ACME antics, I took a moment to imagine what might have been: Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: today we must speak of a grave...

Sep 4, 2012, 10:37 PM

The New Kiss of Death

David Ben-Gurion famously warned American Jewry that assimilation and acculturation into American society would be the slow kiss of death for their community. Fifty years later a more horrifying specter has reared its head. The American Jewish community has...

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About Me

Roei Eisenberg is an Israeli-American educator and policy expert. He is an active lay leader in the American Jewish community and the founder and executive director of ANU: A New Union.