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Oct 5, 2026, 11:30 AM

Nobody Wants Dis-agreement

Adam Brody said something about Israel. That should not be a remarkable sentence. He is an American citizen, an actor and a Jew. Jews have been saying things about Israel—and arguing with one another about those things—for considerably longer...

Theodore Sheskin

Oct 5, 2026, 6:33 AM

Proxy Militias Maximize Civilian Deaths in War

This month, U.S. Central Command will hold a daylong conference in Tampa on ways to limit civilian deaths in war. (Early in his tenure, Defense Secretary Hegseth decided to shut down a Pentagon initiative created to limit civilian harm.)...

Peter Samuelson

Oct 4, 2026, 3:45 AM

Brutal is not the same as genocide

Israel's war in Gaza deserves hard criticism. But it does not meet the definition of the worst crime there is, and the region's population history shows why the difference matters. Call the war in Gaza brutal. Call it disproportionate....

Oct 2, 2026, 9:57 AM

Israel’s Balkan Embrace Comes with Dangerous Historical Baggage

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Israel has never had the luxury of treating history as merely history. For a country whose national consciousness was forged by the Holocaust, the memory of collaboration, persecution, ethnic cleansing and genocide is not an academic exercise. It is part...

Oct 1, 2026, 8:30 PM

No, Professor Bartov, It’s Not Genocide

The Israeli academic Omer Bartov may be the most prominent scholar currently making genocide accusations against Israel. His new book, Israel: What Went Wrong, will no doubt add to that reputation. Since 1989, Bartov has been on the faculty...

Oct 1, 2026, 8:27 PM

Adam Brody: From Hot Rabbi to Hot Seat

It seems the producers of Netflix’s Nobody Wants This have gotten one thing correct: truly, nobody does want this. As a Jewish viewer, I was excited to watch the show, yet my enthusiasm turned to wariness within the first...

Daphne Lazar Price

Sep 27, 2026, 4:26 PM

Put me down for outrage

Adam Brody is not a rabbi. This should not need to be said. He is an actor who plays one on Nobody Wants This, the wildly popular Netflix series that has generated plenty of conversation and controversy about Judaism,...

Sep 27, 2026, 1:45 PM

Adam Brody, Compassion Does Not Require Joining This Chorus

I believe Israel did not commit genocide in Gaza. This open letter asks Adam Brody to withdraw his accusation — and challenges the idea that using the word “genocide” has become a prerequisite for caring about Palestinians. Dear Mr. Brody, “Put...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Sep 25, 2026, 5:34 AM

Anti-Semitism & Anti-Zionism: Different Things, Same Source

Are anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism the same phenomenon? No. But they do (in part) emanate from the same emotional state. What I am about to put forward here is certainly not the only explanation of these phenomena – there are...

Sep 22, 2026, 11:58 PM

Twenty-Five Minutes of Misery

An ovation is not a verdict. (AI-generated editorial illustration.)

NAZA, the applause in Venice, and the conversation Israel needs Twenty-five minutes. Try clapping for three. I keep coming back to that number. After NAZA, the documentary alleging that Israel systematically accepted excessive civilian casualties in Gaza, premiered at the Venice...

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