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Jul 18, 2026, 5:38 PM

The Hungarian Roots of Ultra-Orthodox Anti-Zionism

It is one of the greatest paradoxes of Jewish history: from the very same Hungarian-Jewish world emerged two figures who offered completely opposite answers to the question of the Jewish people's future, Theodor Herzl, the father of political Zionism,...

Jul 18, 2026, 5:10 PM

A question of identity

Many American Jews are unwittingly playing a dangerous game. They are much too critical of Israeli policies and Israel’s prime minister, and they are often loud about it. Progressive Jewish politicians take stands against Israel, playing to anti-Israel sentiment...

Jul 17, 2026, 10:56 PM

Dear Israelis…

It’s that time. Crying on the plane back to New York from Israel. Again. Not since the summer of 1992, when I was a teenager on ZOA’s Masada Leadership Training Program (yes, I was on the nerd trip), have I spent...

Jul 16, 2026, 3:27 PM

The Destruction of the Temple and Israel’s Government of Destruction

The opening words of this week’s haftarah are among the most shocking in the Bible: “Hear the word of the Lord, rulers of Sodom; give ear to the teaching of our God, people of Gomorrah.” Isaiah is not addressing Sodom and Gomorrah....

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...

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