Israel’s Democratic Revolution
As the Arab Spring drifts away from its democratic promise, there is one place in the Middle East where democracy is proving both resilient and capable of responding to a…
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Matthew Ackerman
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America’s Most Important Jewish Event?
Prediction is a loser’s game. But if one were to guess the Jewish happening of the moment in the United States of greatest future consequence – the one most likely…
The Real Jewish Fight on Campus
Israel’s treatment on campus is a perpetual concern of a broad swath of American Jews, and rightly so. The very idea of a Jewish state, to say nothing of the…
Israel Is Home of Choice for its Citizens
An article by Pini Herman, a principal at Phillips and Herman Demographic Research, published today in the Forward, directly takes on the popular notion that “millions” of Israelis live abroad.…
What the Ayatollah Gets Right
A couple of days ago, the Wall Street Journal published a fascinating article on the Iranian success of “All My Joys,” the latest album by the Israeli singer Rita. Tucked…
Don’t Dismiss the Moral Power of Protest
A few days ago, a video was posted online of an anti-Israel protest at Portland State University. Following an increasingly common tactic among campus anti-Israelists, the protesters filled a few…
Israel Continues to Politically Inspire
In recent decades it became a common trope to bemoan Israel’s inability to inspire politically. As opposed to the state’s early decades of scrappy existence against long odds, the images…
The Next Campus Israel Advocacy
Last week, student leaders at Harvard, drawn from the undergraduate college, the Kennedy school, the business school, and the law school, held a conference about Israel. While the conference has…
The Miracle of Modern Jewish Experience
News about the Jews these days is dominated (for good reason) by negatives. Their homeland is threatened by an Islamist regime in Iran that openly seeks its destruction while rushing…
Some Hope for the American Jewish Future
An observer of the Jews of the United States will find no shortage of reasons to be depressed. But the language of an introductory address at a dinner with a…
Who Says “Hatikvah” Isn’t for Everybody?
This week in The Forward, the usually superb Philologos sadly decided to give a bit of his intellectual heft to a topic that is becoming a bit of a meme…
Toulouse a Reminder of the Need to Refute Jewish Cowardice
Many probably think, but fewer have the arrogance to write, that the recent shooting deaths of at least four Jews at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France are Israel’s fault.…