12+ hour, 24+ min ago   (600+ words) But that was never the point. What made the Massie Amendment a watershed moment in U.S.-Israel relations was the vote count: 104 members voted in favor—103 Democrats and one Republican (Massie). The GOP identified an opportunity to advance an otherwise meaningless…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (541+ words) On June 12, Canada played their home opener of the 2026 World Cup against Bosnia and Herzegovina in front of a nearly sold-out crowd. The match ended in a 1-1 draw, but that was not the only thing that people walked away talking…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago   (586+ words) “B’Ivrit: A Hebrew Language Media Roundup” is a monthly look at the news through the eyes of Israeli media consumers. Now, the same Israeli public and press—both right and left—that celebrated Trump are turning their back on him....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (477+ words) The gun hasn’t been fired, the line-up hasn’t been determined, and the date of the race hasn’t been set—it’s actually unknown if the race will even take place. Yet the opposition parties are deep into their election campaign sprint....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (627+ words) Usually, when two world leaders have disagreements or engage in a tense exchange, their staff rushes in to extinguish the fire and present the public with a sanitized version of the events. Words like “frank” and “honest exchange” are used…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (258+ words) “B’Ivrit: A Hebrew Language Media Roundup” is a monthly look at the news through the eyes of Israeli media consumers. An election poll published the same day in Maariv offered a similar breakdown: 59 seats for the opposition parties, 51 for Netanyahu’s…...

2+ mon, 12+ hour ago   (231+ words) That clarity, in turn, restores the effectiveness of the word “Zionism.” Once the slurs are traced back to their ideological source, what emerges is a crystal-clear understanding of Zionism—not as a bundle of contested policies, but as a simple…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (390+ words) Israeli-Turkish Relations at the End of the Cold War: The Geopolitics of Denying the Armenian Genocide By Eldad Ben Aharon Edinburgh University Press, 304 pp. “I’d never heard the Armenian case framed in relation to the Holocaust before,” he told me....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (242+ words) Moment Magazine Writing Between Two Homelands: Fiction at the Crossroads of Israel and America with Joan Leegent and Maya Arad—in celebration of Moment’s Karma Short Fiction contest winners Tuesday, April 28 at 1pm, ET / 10am, PT For decades, American Jewish writers have…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (289+ words) “B’Ivrit: A Hebrew Language Media Roundup” is a monthly look at the news through the eyes of Israeli media consumers. One of the favorite pastimes for Israeli reporters, experts, pundits and, quite frankly, everyone else in Israel is to try…...