An Iranian-Israeli Love-In?
by Kelley Kidd
Recently, Facebook has been bombarding me. Not with its usual memes and Spotify updates, but with a slew of politically oriented statuses and...
The AIPAC/J Street Color War
by Charles Kopel
A new spring ritual has taken form for American Jews concerned with Israel activism. The AIPAC Policy Conference, a mainstay in the American...
March Comes In with AIPAC and Goes Out with J Street
March is bookended by two Israel-related conferences in Washington this year: the annual AIPAC Policy Conference, attended by about 13,000 people, was held the first...
Twenty (Jewish) Questions
by Kelley Kidd
Monday night, I sat in traffic in a taxi outside the Washington Convention Center as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) gala...
Journalists Lynn Sweet and Ron Kampeas on the Jewish Vote
By Alexis McNamee
For more on the Jewish vote in the 2012 presidential election, yesterday we listened in to “The Jewish Federations of North America Teleconference...
A Case of Arab Democracy
Our January/February issue features the fourth in our series on Israel's Arab citizens: this one focuses on the pursuit of Arab-Israelis for equal rights in...
Jerusalem Syndrome
by Sala Levin
Matt Gross went to Jerusalem, and all he got was this lousy set of tefillin.
This, more or less, was the takeaway from Gross's...
Beit Shemesh Rhapsody
Does Freddie Mercury have the power to heal religious and sociopolitical tensions? A group of 250 women and girls in Beit Shemesh tested the premise...
How Do You Say "Middle-earth" in Hebrew?
Thank you, Internet, for this gem: a Hebrew edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic, The Hobbit, in Hebrew. And even better than the cover, the book...
How Do You Say “Middle-earth” in Hebrew?
Thank you, Internet, for this gem: a Hebrew edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic, The Hobbit, in Hebrew. And even better than the cover, the book...
Israel Still Has the Power to Change
By Scott Fox
The beginning of 2012 means the nearing of elections in Israel and the United States. In both, incumbents have surprisingly maintained a strong...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Living in Israel But Were Afraid to Ask
by Erica Shaps
In a few weeks, I will be coming to the end of seven months spent in Israel. When I first arrived, I thought...