What makes American Jewish life so complex isn't far from Israel's own fraught existence

After their own country turned against them, Israel became a refuge for the author's family

Israel is no longer a plucky little country using its wits to punch above its weight. Now, it’s a country with weight.

To maintain an attachment to the Zionist project, we need something that feeds our souls

What thousands of Hamas rockets and mortars failed to do, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government managed just weeks after it was sworn into power

Israel is punching way above its weight in a field that is particularly urgent today: climate technology

We did not return to our ancestral homeland for the purpose of mere survival, but to take history in our hands and partner with God to mold it in our image

We think of Israel as the country that manages to survive despite existential threats from outside and within. What should we expect? An examination of Israel’s earlier crises may be instructive.

We carry the heavy burden of difficult and frustrating events, but we lean into surviving with a hope that does not know despair

If ethno-nationalism is bad for Jews as a minority in the Diaspora, then ethno-nationalism practiced by Jews as the majority, holding state power, is also bad