Sorry, but “tikkun olam” doesn’t mean becoming a martyr.

Israel has become far too important to people whose lives it barely affects.

The Jews did what dozens of other stateless peoples did — but only our independence is called “colonialism.”

One word tells us we are loved. The other tells us we are accountable. Judaism demands both.

We have spent much of our history being told that Jews were paranoid shortly before discovering that we were not paranoid enough. I suspect that is precisely the point we are at now.

What happened in Jaffa in 1921 complicates almost everything we are told about the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

We did everything the West asked of a minority — we integrated, contributed, and prospered — yet somehow became guilty for succeeding.

What do you do when you realize that some of what you blamed on a relationship or another person is actually coming from you? That is the question Selichot forces us to confront.

Everyone has an opinion about Israel. Almost nobody looks at the map.

Anti-Zionism increasingly depends on pretending that Israel and the Jewish people are two unrelated things.