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Kathleen J. Rusnak

Sep 16, 2026, 10:11 PM

Re’im: Before the Stones Are Set

The Rev. Dr. Kathleen J. Rusnak at Kibbutz Kfar Aza

In February 2024, five months into the war, I stood in the ruins of Kibbutz Kfar Aza. (My trip had been sponsored by the American Friends of Sheba Medical Center, supporting the hospital in Ramat Gan, Israel.) At the kibbutz,...

Sep 15, 2026, 3:23 PM

25 Minutes of Shame: What Venice’s Standing Ovation for ‘NAZA’ Got So Wrong

I watched a room full of people in Venice give a twenty-five-minute standing ovation to two Israeli filmmakers for their documentary "NAZA." I can no longer stay silent. I am a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. I have served...

Janet Bond Brill

Sep 15, 2026, 12:05 AM

Never Again Means Recognizing the Sparks: The Sparks on Lexington Avenue

A woman I went to high school with posted something to Facebook last week. We were never close. She was a face in a hallway and she is a name in a feed now, which is how most of...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Sep 10, 2026, 9:14 PM

DARVO from beyond the grave: Ratko Mladić and Serbia’s cult of victimhood

Ratko Mladić returned to Serbia on a government plane. He had left Serbia in 2011 after his arrest and transfer to The Hague, where the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army was eventually convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity...

Sep 7, 2026, 4:44 AM

The Genocide Inversion

Words have meanings. Crimes have elements. And one of the gravest accusations in human history should require more than repetition. For nearly three years, Israel has been accused of committing genocide in Gaza. The accusation has moved from protests and...

Sep 1, 2026, 8:11 AM

You Can Run From Zionism. But You Can Never Escape Your Judaism

Brad Lander, a progressive Jewish politician in New York, attending Zohran Mamdani's primary election watch party in June 2025. (Heather Khalifa/AP)

Brad Lander has spent years of his political career trying to prove that being Jewish does not require being a supporter of Israel. Last weekend, he was shown that people don't care. Lander, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 10th...

Menachem Rosensaft

Aug 29, 2026, 1:33 PM

Ratko Mladic is dead. The meaning of genocide must live on

Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, center, speaks with Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, right, in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, in 1994. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)

When the general ordered the slaughter of Bosniaks at Srebernica, he aimed to destroy a people. That's why it was genocide — and why Israel’s Gaza war was not

Domicela Heijmeriks

Aug 27, 2026, 3:30 PM

Seventy Kilometres of Guilt

(Shir Danieli via Pexels)

When simply going to the beach becomes a political judgement I sometimes think the beach today is a little like the ice used to be: it belongs to everyone and no one. On the ice, the usual rules governing land...

Todd L. Pittinsky

Aug 27, 2026, 9:24 AM

Teach the Holocaust. Lose the Label

The word "genocide" was supposed to make evil unmistakable. Today, it does the opposite. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in to name the unthinkable—the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. Holocaust educators adopted it almost immediately as its organizing category, using...

Aug 26, 2026, 10:33 PM

‘Genocide! Genocide!’: Israel in the Accusing Age

How an accusation against Israel reaches the Jew In the language surrounding Israel and Gaza, evil no longer requires a rare event, for its signs proliferate faster than the crimes they claim to name. The gravest words circulate in advance,...

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