NYJW Opinion

“Israel today,” Jeremy Ben-Ami tells us in “Liberal Zionism and Its Discontents” (Opinion, Sept. 12), “falls far short of fulfilling the dreams of its founders in all respects.”  In a one-sentence tour de force Mr. Ben-Ami thus writes off Israel’s 66 years of astonishing accomplishment. Ben-Ami is just as dismissive of the Palestinians, though he […]

Although Jonathan Mark’s article about informal donations to the IDF during
the Gaza War was a critique, it brought a smile to my face (“Buddy, Can You Spare Some Socks?” Aug. 29). It is absolutely
incredible how Jews felt so connected to the soldiers that they organized
their own campaigns to provide the soldiers with what they thought […]