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Seth EisenbergThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
American Jewish parents are asking how to prepare their children for a world where antisemitism is once again visible. The recent Democratic primary...
A ceasefire can be negotiated in conference rooms. Peace cannot. Diplomats may end the exchange of weapons, but only ordinary people can end the cycle...
How grief becomes grievance—and what communities can do about it. The title of this essay is not a metaphor. It is a description of something that...
This essay is part of an ongoing series on “peace preparation” — the emotional, relational, and narrative work that political agreements cannot...
This essay is part of an ongoing series on “peace preparation” — the emotional, relational, and narrative work that political agreements cannot...
Why agreements fail when societies are not emotionally prepared to live inside them. Peace agreements describe what leaders sign. Peace preparation...
Peace deals are supposed to change everything. Maps get redrawn. Flags are raised. Hands are shaken for the cameras. Commentators talk about...
Israel is deeply grateful for American support. But support does not erase history, sovereignty, or Israel’s right to speak for itself. As an...
As the international focus begins to shift from the narrow question of Iran’s nuclear program toward broader questions of regional stability and...
For years, Benjamin Netanyahu’s closeness to Donald Trump was one of his most reliable political assets — a symbol of access, influence, and the...
Trump’s shift says less about ideology than about credit, blame, and competing stories of Israeli security. In recent weeks, Donald Trump has...
Jacob Nagel is right about the danger. The question is whether he is right about the strategy. No serious observer should confuse an Iranian signature...
After 53 years, a Knicks championship is more than a basketball story. For New Yorkers, Israelis, and Jews who know something about waiting,...
The first time I went to Israel, I was 20 years old. My older brother David was 27. We visited Sharm el Sheikh. We trekked through Sinai, which today...
After October 7, Israel does not need polished sorrow. It needs the kind of accountability that begins repair. Years ago, I sat with a couple who had...
The Call That Revealed the Crisis The most revealing moment in the U.S.-Israel relationship this month was not a missile strike, a ceasefire...
Israel is not in the World Cup this year, which gives Israeli fans a rare and strangely liberating opportunity: they can watch without heartbreak...
There are moments in history when diplomacy is not the opposite of war, but the prelude to something worse. That is the fear many Israelis now feel as...
I was at a wedding in Israel several months ago, sitting beside someone who has served the country for decades. Between the music, the blessings, the...
A new Pew Research Center survey should stop us in our tracks. Across 36 countries, a median of 67% of adults now hold an unfavorable view of Israel,...
When two leaders quarrel, the world usually asks the most obvious questions: Who is right? Who is stronger? Who yielded? Who won? Those are often the...
Monday’s reported phone call between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be remembered less for its profanity than for...
The warning signs are no longer subtle A recent Israel Hayom report describes what many Israelis and American Jews have felt building for some time:...
One Young Life, One Unbearable Loss Alex Miller was 23 years old. Originally from Miami, he moved to Israel, served as a combat soldier in the IDF,...
Tucker Carlson’s argument about Thomas Massie’s defeat in Kentucky’s Fourth Congressional District is not just mistaken. It reflects a dangerous...
On May 13, 1939, the MS St. Louis set sail from Hamburg carrying 937 passengers, almost all of them Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. Cuba refused to let...
I am an American. I am a Jew. But I am not writing primarily as an advocate for Israel or the US-Israel relationship, nor am I asking Americans to see...
Nicholas Kristof and The New York Times have crossed a line that responsible journalism should never approach, much less leap over with a running...
Much of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s interview with Major Garrett that aired Sunday night did not make it into the televised 60 Minutes...
Michael A. Cohen’s Atlantic essay, “How Netanyahu Hurt America’s Jews,” makes a serious charge: that Benjamin Netanyahu has damaged American...
The Bennett-Lapid reunion has unquestionably jolted Israel’s electoral race. But even the article announcing that alliance makes the larger point...
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