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Samuel Rothmann

Jul 13, 2026, 12:39 PM

Flowers of Evil: Varieties of Anti-Zionism

This timeless article, written by my father John F. Rothmann and his colleague David G. Dalin years before I was born, is a reminder of how amazing, and tragically relevant, their words still are today. It was originally published in...

Eric M. Leiderman

Jul 13, 2026, 5:02 AM

Did America Prove Herzl Wrong?

Theodor Herzl never witnessed the rise of American Jewry. This illustration imagines Herzl overlooking New York as the United States emerged as the most successful Diaspora community in Jewish history. (AI-generated illustration created with ChatGPT/OpenAI. Not a historical photograph.)

Theodor Herzl remains one of the defining Jewish thinkers of the modern era because he recognized a truth that many of his contemporaries preferred not to see. Writing amid the rise of European nationalism and in the shadow of...

Jul 12, 2026, 8:41 PM

A People That Dwells Alone: Destiny or Decree?

Between Har Hamor and Rabbi Meir Kahane, a conception is taking shape that turns isolation from a value imposed from without into an ideological goal — even at the cost of collision with reality In a Dvar Torah for Parshat...

Jul 12, 2026, 8:32 PM

The Case for ‘Aspirational Zionism’

"Everything depends on how we live in our land and how we behave here. Our brethren in the Diaspora want to see here what is missing there in the cultural and spiritual and moral life of Galut must...

Jul 12, 2026, 7:14 AM

How fusing Zionism with Judaism endangers the very people it claims to defend

Orthodox Jews outside Downing Street protesting in solidarity with Palestine. On May 14, 2022, thousands assembled in London, both to commemorate the Nakba and also to protest the murder by the Israeli army of the veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Alisdare Hickson / Wikimedia Commons.

For decades, the sentence you heard across the Arab and Muslim world was: we have no quarrel with Jews; our quarrel is with Zionists. Israel was the Zionist entity. The formula was often a fig leaf – I will...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 11, 2026, 9:08 PM

I Still Call Myself a Gay Liberal

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I still call myself a gay liberal. At least, that is how I define myself. Whether every person who now claims those words would still permit me to use them is a different question. I want to think aloud about...

Eugene J. Levin

Jul 11, 2026, 12:33 PM

The Antizionist Script Never Changed

As a documentary filmmaker I spend my life in archives, reading the paper other people have decided to forget. Most of it stays forgotten for a reason. Every so often a document comes up out of the box and...

Barry Mellinger

Jul 11, 2026, 12:32 AM

The Acceptable Jew

Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Chairman of the European Jewish Association and one of Europe’s most prominent Jewish leaders, was right to be outraged. When CNN’s Elex Michaelson said Jon Ossoff “may not read as Jewish” as Josh Shapiro, he wasn’t...

Jul 10, 2026, 6:41 PM

The Beautiful Game and The Jewish Story

I hadn’t realized how much I needed the World Cup. For the past several weeks, it has offered a welcome respite from the relentless bad news cycle. After months of war, politics, protests, and all the other stories seemingly designed...

Allen S. Maller

Jul 10, 2026, 7:38 AM

Jews reading about Prophet Ishmael as well as Prophet Isaac

Muslims know that Hagar and her son Prophet Ishmael are mentioned in the Biblical book of Genesis, (chapter 21); but very few know that every year Jews in synagogues worldwide read Genesis chapters 21 and 22 on the first...

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