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Lisa ShatzThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Last week, on the Brookline PAX listserv, a community forum that includes many Jewish residents, someone shared the results of an Associated...
War is always a human tragedy and the suffering in Gaza has been terrible. Innocent civilians have been killed, families have lost their homes, and...
Dear Senator Sanders, At a time when many Jews are increasingly uneasy about their place in America and around the world, the words of influential...
I am no Bibistit—the Hebrew term for a devoted supporter of Benjamin Netanyahu. I opposed his judicial reform initiative, which deeply divided...
A good friend of mine, Emily, who holds progressive political views, recently asked me what I thought about the West Bank. I told her that if I...
On June 12, 2026, I watched an episode of Lazar Focus in which Lazar Berman interviewed Germany’s ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert. The...
Recently, during a Brookline, Massachusetts Town Meeting debate about commemorating Brookline residents who were killed on September 11, a speaker...
Recently, I exchanged a series of emails with a fellow Brookline Town Meeting member who is convinced that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza....
Carl Sagan famously observed that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” That principle is especially important when accusations...