The recent Gaza war — back to basics

 ABOVE: Israel’s Iron Dome works to blowup incoming Hamas rockets in Tel Aviv. (May 11, 2021, IMAGE VIA SKYNEWS) by Howard Adelman Peter Beinart wrote two important pieces in Jewish Currents, one last summer that claimed, “The painful truth is that the project to which liberal Zionists like myself have devoted

Israeli-Palestinian Prognostications

 by Howard Adelman This paper is written in three parts. Each is simply a syntheses of conclusions and differences over the analysis of the conflict, surprisingly revealing a broad consensus In this three-part series, I originally intended to wrap up my collection of givens and trends with possible alternative choices or

Bagels Going to Pot?

 One of the city’s premier bagel shops seems to be thinking of a new way to spend breakfast with your “bud”. Trust me, before you read on, I’ve already checked the calendar and, despite the possible results of tonight’s U.S. election, it is not April 1st. After posting a story

Remembering the Politics of Fear

   The recent debate over the admittance of Syrian refugees is ominously reminiscent of events that took place over a century ago in Canada. Indeed, Syrians were among the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who entered Canada, aggressively recruited by Canadian government agents and their proxies throughout Europe, the Ottoman

A journey to the ancient land of Israel

 ABOVE: A view of Tel Aviv and the Mediterannean Sea. I was eagerly anticipating my trip to Israel. The land of Israel’s central place in antiquity is an endless source of fascination. So too is Israel’s more recent past and its contested place in the world today. It would be