Every year Palestinian farmers experience violence during the olive harvest. This year for Sukkot, Ilana Cruger-Zaken is inviting others to join her in supporting their resilience.
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl says she was “angry and embarrassed” that 94 rabbinical and cantatorial students wrote a letter accusing Israel of “violent suppression of human rights” and “apartheid” during its last Gaza onslaught, and said she would not “hire anyone who signed that letter.” Buchdahl was letting slip a policy that many Jewish organizations maintain, not to hire or give a platform to those who question Zionism.
After Israeli soldiers killed more than 40 Palestinians ‘easily’ in 2 months, the army chief of staff said, “This is not right” and ordered snipers to “relax.” But when reporter Ohad Hemo related this incident to the Israel Policy Forum, chair Susie Gelman just raised her concerns about the Palestinian prisoners escaping an Israeli prison.
Three progressive House members are making a legislative effort to block the delivery of US-made bombs to Israel.
Steven Salaita reflects on what the putative assassin of Robert F. Kennedy has meant to his generation of Arab Americans.
Maqlouba, musafan, and somaqiya. Ziad Ali shares three recipes from friends, collecting oral histories behind the carefully curated spices and mixtures of Palestinian heritage cooking.
This past Monday was supposed to be the day of the historic BDS vote in Burlington, VT, but pro-Israel groups launched a coordinated effort to squash the resolution shortly before it came up.
This month marks the 39th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatilla massacre. Ellen Siegel, now 79 and a retired nurse in Washington, D.C., talks to Steve France about what happened to her in 1982, when she was working as a volunteer nurse at the hospital in the Shatila neighborhood of Beirut: “The soldiers’ rifles were pointed at us. Some of my fellow hospital staff started crying. I wondered, was anyone going to know that I died in this refugee camp?”
Pro-Israel pressure gets Burlington, VT city council to hit pause on BDS measure.
An establishment rabbi who backs “Zioness” and other pro-Israel initiatives says that Israel like Abraham can be a “toxic narcissist” and lift a knife against the innocent. That Jonathan Blake can humanize Palestinians and keep his job shows that the Jewish community is shifting.