‘Where Do You Stand?’: A 1943 Yom Kippur sermon challenged the American Jewish community on Zionism By Jack Ross September 13, 2013 38 Seventy years ago this Yom Kippur, one of the most prominent and outspoken American rabbis…
Beinart’s romance, and the coming tragedy By Jack Ross April 27, 2012 104 Even before its release last month, Peter Beinart’s The Crisis of Zionism has been extravagantly…
‘Peter Beinart’s offense against liberalism’ and the spiritual crisis Zionism has wrought By Jack Ross March 27, 2012 45 One could not ask for a more perfect museum quality specimen of the spiritual crisis…
Ron Paul and the liberal interventionists By Jack Ross January 9, 2012 15 Norman Thomas, Paul’s leftwing predecessor Unlike all the others who have sounded off on Ron…
Even the left has deferred to the Jewish establishment’s demand to bow down before Baal By Jack Ross November 15, 2011 25 The other day Adam Horowitz published a dialogue with Daniel Sieradski of Occupy Judaism. This…
Goldstone lesson: what’s so great about international law? By Jack Ross November 2, 2011 13 What Richard Goldstone published on the Times op-ed page yesterday should not be surprising to…
The neocons’ post-9/11 Jewish journey (and mine) By Jack Ross September 23, 2011 9 The tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has come and gone. But in the commemoration…
In the sacred story of American empire, Israel is the ultimate symbol, dammit By Jack Ross August 31, 2011 4 Jewish Ideas Daily has run a critical review, by Lawrence Grossman, of Jack Ross’s important…
Mead consecrates Jewish nationalism and American nationalism on the rock of anti-Semitism By Jack Ross July 20, 2011 8 Walter Russell Mead is the apotheosis of the American establishment in our time, which tends…
Alterman describes a future for Israelis as free citizens of a normal democratic country ‘dystopian.’ And why? By Jack Ross July 10, 2011 44 Eric Alterman has an important piece at the Forward stating the liberal Zionist opposition to…