Zohran Mamdani spent basically his entire mayoral campaign promising he would personally arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if the man dared set foot in New York City. Not “I support the ICC.” Not...
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Because Israel is YUM!
Ben Gvir’s Crocodile Moat. Not A Joke.
Let me say the sentence out loud so you understand how insane it sounds even before we get into why it’s also just historically illiterate, ineffective and breathlessly stupid: Israel’s...
Jerusalem’s Shabbat Coffee War Has a Missionary Problem
Jerusalem was rocked over the past two weekends by Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) Jews protesting on Shabbat afternoons against a recently opened new café located in the downtown area, Café Basimta (in the...
Choreography, Not Courage: Rahm Emanuel in Tel Aviv
Rahm Emanuel gave a speech in Tel Aviv yesterday. OK. Cool, right? I met his niece, Rebekah Emanuel in Jerusalem in 2012 at one of those 2-day conferences that the city’s tourist infrastructure...
Vigilante Criminals, Not Settlers
I want to be friends with Mayor Aliza Pilichowski. Maybe the three of us, her, me, and her husband Rabbi Uri Pilichowski, who has his own remarkable site full of essays and Torah teaching, can grab a...
JVP Isn’t After My $20. It’s After Us.
I’m on Jewish Voice for Peace‘s email list the way you slow down for a car accident. Not because I want to be there. Because I can’t quite believe what I’m looking at, and I...