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Jun 5, 2026, 5:35 PM

A Liberal Zionist’s Journey Toward Understanding Religious Zionism

This time of year marks another anniversary of a historical event that Israelis and Palestinians remember in dramatically different ways. For Israelis—and many Jews around the world—the 1967 Six-Day War represents another miraculous victory that ensured the survival of...

Jun 4, 2026, 11:42 PM

We Cannot Look Away. These Israelis Aren’t.

Far too often these days, we see horrific images of the ongoing dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank at the hands of Jewish settlers, often passively or actively backed by the Israeli army. Witnessing this reality shakes me...

Jonathan Muskat

Jun 4, 2026, 10:45 PM

When We Decide the Law No Longer Applies

The disturbing attack this week on Justice Noam Sohlberg's home in Alon Shvut should concern every Israeli and every Jew, regardless of political or religious affiliation. Dozens of draft protesters gathered outside his home, shattered windows, broke flowerpots, smashed...

Jun 4, 2026, 3:15 PM

Where do you live, Meira Sohlberg?

After a group of ultra-Orthodox “rioters” vandalized the home of High Court Justice Noam Sohlberg and his wife Meira in the Alon Shvut settlement in Gush Etzion on Wednesday night, Meira spoke to reporters about her shock. “How can Jews...

Eliyahu V. Sapir

Jun 1, 2026, 11:39 AM

The line that institutions keep drawing

The distinction between Israel and “the settlements,” one of the terms through which Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria is described, occupies a peculiar position in contemporary European public life. It appears in trade regulations, but it does not...

Jonathan Muskat

May 31, 2026, 5:43 PM

Birkat Kohanim and the Challenge of Internal Criticism

In recent months, I have found myself deeply troubled by certain public episodes in Israeli political life. For example, Itamar Ben Gvir publicly celebrated the detention and humiliation of people on a flotilla, using triumphalist messaging and media appearances...

May 15, 2026, 3:48 PM

‘Jewish terrorism’ isn’t Jewish

Footage shows masked Jews storming the West Bank village of Asira al-Qibliya during an attack on April 17, 2026. (Screen capture/ X)

Wielding power for violence is antithetical to Judaism, so why don't religious Zionist leaders censure the Jews who attack their Arab neighbors?

May 10, 2026, 8:27 AM

Israel, This Crossed Every Line of Dignity

Photo credits: Sabine Sterk(AI)

Near Sa Nur, a funeral for a "Palestinian" family was reportedly coordinated in advance with the IDF. After the burial, a group of Israeli civilians arrived at the cemetery with digging tools and objected to the grave’s location, claiming...

May 9, 2026, 7:41 PM

Hard Not To Lose Faith

Adding some art and color to the hopelessness around, my photo

Although it was a good week in Merhavim, I would like to begin this post with an account of the events that took place after I returned home. Following a very difficult year marked by Jewish pogroms in the West...

May 3, 2026, 10:25 PM

Beyond the (Green) Line, Beyond the Law

The facts are no longer in dispute. In parts of the West Bank, so-called Israeli ‘civilians’ have carried out acts of arson, violent assault, intimidation, and actual murder against Palestinians in their own communities. These are not rumors or isolated...

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