“For the sake of the Jewish community and for the sake of others,” says Naomi Dann, an organizer of the Open Hillel conference, about the 300 people who will gather in Cambridge to shake off the restrictions on free speech inside the Hillel organization that dictates rules on campus Jewish life.

Religion writer Mark Oppenheimer stereotypes Rev. Bruce Shipman, the pro-Palestinian priest, as a member of an elite WASP group that dislikes Jews

Police surveillance of Muslims. Media lies about Muslims. The litmus test for “good Muslims.” Some of the abuses addressed by Jews Against Islamophobia in a new video and new national network, J-NAI (Jewish Voice for Peace Network Against Islamophobia)

Jewish Voices for a Just Peace is a new South African org that is seeking official action against a Jewish leader who likened Archbishop Tutu to Hitler because of his criticisms of Israel.

Obama’s dear friend Elie Wiesel celebrates the settlers of East Jerusalem for “strengthening the Jewish presence” in the city, in an ad in Hebrew. Thus the man who bore witness to the ethnic cleansing of Jews in Europe participates in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Mahmoud Abbas’s use of the word “genocide” for Israel may not have been helpful given popular conceptions of the word but we need a word to describe the incremental destruction of Palestinian communities. The late Baruch Kimmerling invented a word, “politicide”.

Is it time to pay up for what has become all too easy verbiage as the people of Gaza were slaughtered? Marc Ellis reflects on the prophetic message of minister Loren McGrail, who quotes Dietrich Bonhoeffer on opposing fascism

Arpen Roy talks with Ofra Yeshua-Lyth about her book “The Case for a Secular New Jerusalem” and the sociopolitical foundation of Israeli society.

“Increasingly, Israel was challenged and spurned by some of us,” Rabbi Angela Buchdahl says to a leading reform synagogue in Manhattan before imploring her congregation to love Israel because American Jews are the country’s “strategic allies.”

Read a letter the Atlanta chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace sent to Atlanta area Rabbis, the Atlanta Jewish Federation, and the board of trustees of Congregation Etz Chaim calling on them to repudiate Rabbi Lewis’s shocking Rosh Hashanah sermon and to take a stand against anti-Muslim and anti-Arab racism in their synagogues and organizations.