A few days ago, I published an article defending the Mapping Project. You won’t find it anymore as I took it down. After reflecting on the article and discussing it with some friends and colleagues, I decided that the piece was a flawed analysis. I stand by some of what…

Few people thought the patchwork Israeli government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid would last even a year. That they did is notable. But lasting that year was also a testament to just how successful Israel, and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have been at erasing the entire idea of…

I published, at ReThinking Foreign Policy the full, 98-page text of a draft opinion leaked to the newspaper, Politico, that completely overturns Roe v Wade. It is an awful opinion. Unfortunately, it capitalizes on the fact that Roe itself was a poorly thought out and badly written opinion that qualified…

The search for a better option must begin now — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forces some difficult decisions on the United States. The reluctance to enter another foreign war after the debacles in Afghanistan and Iraq have created isolationism in the US not seen since before World War II. That isolationism is born of many factors, but chiefly it is…

In the early morning hours of January 19, an Israeli military force came into the homes of the Salhiyeh family in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. …

The hate and bile coming at Whoopi Goldberg is a terrible sight to see. The statement Goldberg made that got all this started was rooted in a shallow understanding of race, Jews’ relationship to it, and the Holocaust. The response has been more of the same, albeit with different specifics. …

At this writing, it’s one full day after the horrific hostage crisis at a synagogue in Texas ended. A lot of information is being withheld from the public, and many questions still remain. …

It hardly takes an economics expert to tell you that if you spend 50% less on something but get only 10% of the original value, that’s not frugality, it’s stupidity. Yet, as we head into what seems to be the home stretch of the race to pass the so-called “Build…

For many Jews on the left, particularly the moderate or liberal left, there is a preoccupation — some might even say an obsession — with finding the so-called “line” between anti-Zionism and antisemitism, between legitimate, even if harsh, criticism of Israel and an attack on the Jewish people as a…