Israel
How many deaths …?
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 19, 2024
(RNS) — As Marvin Gaye sang: 'War is not the answer.' A new book asks: Is it ever the answer?
African Methodist Episcopal Church leaders call for halt to all US funding of Israel
By Adelle M. Banks — February 16, 2024
(RNS) — The statement comes in a week of continuing calls for cease-fire and humanitarian aid for the victims of the war that began on Oct. 7.
Peace pilgrimage takes up war in Gaza as a civil rights issue
By Yonat Shimron — February 13, 2024
(RNS) — Many Black Americans view the Palestinian cause in the context of the African American experience of oppression. This has on occasion strained relations with American Jews.
ApocryFUN: A Midwinter Series with Tyler Huckabee + Ep. 5: Left Behind
By Roxanne Stone — February 7, 2024
In this episode, Roxy reads Left Behind for the first time and reports back to Tyler.
Support for Israel’s war in Gaza is unraveling among some Jewish groups
By Yonat Shimron — January 23, 2024
(RNS) — J Street, the liberal American Jewish organization dedicated to a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, called for an end to the war, the latest American Jewish group to do so.
That SuperJew poster from the 1960s
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 23, 2024
(RNS) — A memory of a poster from the 1960s made me think, deeply, about Israel.
Jonah is a prophet for today
By Thomas Reese — January 22, 2024
(RNS) — God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza.
Israel’s Supreme Court cracks open door to female participation in state rabbinate
By David I. Klein — January 22, 2024
(RNS) — Women rabbis, common in the United States, have for decades struggled for recognition from the state.
Converts are Jewish. Period.
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 18, 2024
We are experiencing the greatest surge in antisemitism in recent memory. And, still, people want to become Jewish.
The Jews stand accused: From deicide to genocide
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 16, 2024
(RNS) — The accusation is genocide. But its roots are ancient. And ugly.
Thank God We’re Not A Christian Nation
By Ray Kirstein — January 13, 2024
Host Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with interfaith leader Imam Abdullah Antepli and David Barton Christian nation debunker Warren Throckmorton
A Jew coined the word ‘genocide.’ Now it’s being used against the Jewish state.
By Yonat Shimron — January 10, 2024
(RNS) — Israel has vehemently denied the accusation that the International Court of Justice will begin hearing Thursday.
The world must confront the sexual violence of Oct. 7
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 3, 2024
(RNS) — The essay I wrote with shaking hands. I did not want to do it. I had to do it.
Why Israel matters: A conversation about the National Library of Israel with Rachel Ukeles
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 28, 2023
When people tell me that they are ‘culturally Jewish,’ I can now say: ‘Welcome to your culture.’
We must confront radical evil
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 21, 2023
(RNS) — Is Hamas a form of mythic, cosmic evil? Think about it.
