Ideas

Among Jewish Americans, a ‘quiet middle’ has growing qualms over the war in Gaza

Supporters of Israel who were furious after the Oct. 7 attack are also questioning the aims of a military campaign that is costing Israel global support.

Ideas

100 years later, Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s hawkish Zionism sounds like a formula for peace

The war on Hamas could convince Palestinians that Israel isn’t going anywhere, writes a former spokesman for the Rabin and Peres governments.

Ideas

I know university presidents can respond better to odious speech — because I saw it happen at my school

The University of Nebraska responded to a white supremacist on campus with more speech to drown him out, a Jewish professor there recalls.

Here’s how Jewish life changed (for now) after Oct. 7

David Ellenson was my rabbi. I can’t believe we won’t learn from him anymore.

We need a do-over for the last 2 months. Hanukkah is made for the moment.

How I’m thinking about Hanukkah when Israel is at war — and campus tensions are high

How ‘decolonization’ became the latest flashpoint in the discourse over Israel

Ending hostility and violence means wrestling with our own shadows

How scholar Hasia Diner exploded myths and changed the field of Jewish history: A symposium

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