‘Two Israels’: What’s really behind the judicial reform protests
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — When Benjamin Netanyahu put his controversial calls for judicial reform on pause two weeks ago, many thought the protesters in…
Opinion
Review: ‘Shortest History of Israel and Palestine’ may not be balanced but its conclusions are sound
Reviewed by Deborah Shatz (AJNews) – The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace by Michael Scott-Baumann…
The settlers’ attack on Huwara is not the Orthodox Judaism I grew up on
by Aviad Houminer-Rosenblum (JTA) — Nighttime in Huwara, a small Palestinian town in the West Bank. Jews in large skullcaps and sidelocks, prayer fringes dangling from…
The JTA conversation: Pogrom? Terrorism? What do we call what happened in Huwara?
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — On Sunday Feb. 26, after a Palestinian gunman shot and killed two Israeli brothers in the West Bank, Jewish settlers…
Netflix’s ‘You People’ wasn’t funny at all to my Black and Mexican Jewish family
by Cinthya Silverstein (JTA) — As a couple that is two parts Jew, one part Black, and all parts lovers of comedy, my husband and…