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Mar 5, 2026, 10:00 PM

The Limits of Assimilation: The Case for Being Unapologetically Jewish

The American Jewish community has lived by an unspoken bargain through our nation’s history. If we work hard and give back through civic leadership, philanthropy and joining other communities in their own fights for social justice, we would prove...

Jan 23, 2026, 7:01 PM

Being a Gay Zionist Activist in 2026: Refusing to Retreat on Israel

Remarks by Steven Goldstein for Shabbat services at United Synagogue of Hoboken in New Jersey, Friday, January 23, 2026: Shabbat shalom. If someone other than your extraordinary rabbi, Rob Scheinberg, asked me to speak tonight, I’d have said no. It has...

Jan 20, 2026, 6:53 PM

For the strongest American defense – and Israel’s – don’t pursue Greenland

The worst thing the United States could do right now, for itself and staunch allies like Israel, is to pursue Greenland. That’s not because Greenland lacks strategic value. The Arctic is a major geopolitical theater in which Greenland anchors missile...

Jan 7, 2026, 3:13 AM

Pro-Hamas to Pro-Maduro: When Activism Becomes Cover for Tyranny

I am a liberal human-rights advocate who has spent my career opposing state terror, whether wrapped in the totalitarianism of the radical left or the authoritarianism of the radical right. Except for President Trump’s support of Israel and his...

Jan 4, 2026, 4:50 PM

Mamdani’s Malevolent Mission to Redefine Antisemitism in America

On his first day in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani made three moves that should alarm anyone tracking the rebranding of Antisemitism in American progressive politics. I say this as a mainstream liberal who left the Democratic...

Sep 15, 2025, 7:57 AM

Charlie Kirk’s Assassination and the Cost of Conditional Compassion

I do not ration my grief. I weep for them all. For the forty-nine people shot dead at Pulse, the LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, I wept. For George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, Black Americans whose lives were cut short...

Sep 5, 2025, 10:47 PM

The Hypocrisy of Israel’s ‘Moral Clarity’ Critics

Invocations of “moral clarity” in condemning Israel are everywhere these days — on social media, in public petitions, in op-eds by progressives who style themselves as prophets. But what these critics call moral clarity is nothing of the sort. Where...

Aug 6, 2025, 8:12 PM

Since October 7, I have been fighting for my family

I believe in God, Torah and Israel. And I believe just as deeply in Jewish family. Hostage Evyatar David, starved as if he were in Auschwitz and forced to dig his own grave as the Nazis did to Jews at...

Jul 4, 2025, 3:56 AM

This Zionist Democrat Declares Independence from My Party

If you’ve never read an opinion piece by an author about to weep in anguish as he presses every keyboard button, welcome to your first experience. On this July 4th celebration of America’s independence, I just changed my party...

Jun 27, 2025, 11:40 PM

A New Model to Empower Jews Across America

What if I told you that within one year, we could build a grassroots network of American Jews and our allies powerful enough to shift the tide of Antisemitism and anti-Zionism across the country? I’m talking about recruiting, assigning and...

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About Me

Rabbi Steven Goldstein, leader of a Reform synagogue in metro New York City, is a passionate Zionist and lifelong civil rights advocate. A lawyer who worked for the US House and Senate, and a former television news producer with 10 Emmy Awards, he is the author of the HarperCollins book "The Turn-On: How the Powerful Make Us Like Them."

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