News and Politics

The Mideast After Massachusetts

By Moshe Yaroni

Following the Republican seizure of Ted Kennedy’s former Senate seat, pundits of every conceivable stripe were calling it a victory for the Israeli right. Say what? Moshe Yaroni on how President Obama can still have a positive impact on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Arts and Culture

Sick-Amour

By Joel Tauber

Sick-Amour is a project by Joel Tauber.

News and Politics

Something to Do On a Friday (or Why I Go Out to Demonstrate)

By Yuli Novak and Translated by Jesse Lockard and Rotem Linial

Sheikh Jarrah has come to symbolize the Israeli government’s Judaization of Jerusalem’s Palestinian neighborhoods. An email from a protestor, dispelling myths about the policy, and those Israelis who oppose it.

News and Politics

Was Scott Brown's Win about Health Care?

By Jo Ellen Green Kaiser and Zeek

Zeek interviews Rabbi Jonah Pesner, who spearheaded the effort to pass Massachusetts’ innovative health care reform bill, about the Senate race and what it signifies for “Obama-care.”

Life and Action

Under the Same Moon

By Rabbi Haviva Ner-David

It’s difficult for parents to let a 16 year old daughter leave home. It helps to know she still walks under the same moon.

News and Politics

Loving Israel, Demonizing Jews

By Rachel Tabachnick

Christian anti-Semitism hasn’t died. Its just gone in drag as Zionism. What has changed is the willingness of Jewish rightists to overlook it, in exchange for foreign support of the Occupation.

Arts and Culture

Patrol

By Etgar Keret and Translated by Sondra Silverston

Originally appearing in Pipelines, this ironic, disturbing and oddly romantic short story has been newly revised by Etgar Keret for Zeek.

News and Politics

Misdiagnosing Israel's Ills

By Moshe Yaroni

A progressive solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the only way to effectively resolve it. Why is it, then, that most of the proposals put forth by Diaspora liberals fall so utterly short of the mark? Moshe Yaroni on Henry Siegman’s argument that peace can only be imposed from the outside.

News and Politics

Tzedakah for Haiti

The people of Haiti need the help of every community in the world. Here is a list of Jewish organizations presently engaged in relief efforts.