The divide between Jewish Zionists and Jewish anti-Zionists pits children against their folks, students against their teachers. What should we make of it?

For long generations, American Jews have tried to leave their mark on the Jews of Israel, and the Jews of Israel have tried to leave their mark on American Jewry. What’s all that effort add up to? Have we, in fact, influenced one another much at all and, if so, how?

Some of our smartest cogitators – Rabbis, scholars, writers, organizers and activists – draft a “Declaration of Our Common Destiny”: a sort of constitution of the Jewish People, by the Jewish People, and for the Jewish People. Is this a good thing?

A letter by a kid murdered in Auschwitz goes up for auction in Israel, and anguish ensues. Who, if anyone, has the right to own (and sell) Holocaustiana?

A union head pushing to privatize the government-owned company he works for? Should labor be clamoring for their shops to be bought by capitalists who grease the sprockets of their profit-making machines with the blood of the workers?

Is Benny Gantz the new Yitzhak Rabin?

Does Tel Aviv suck the oxygen away from other Israeli cities that could be great?

A leftist, civil rights activist says that no Prime Minister in Israel’s history has ever done as much as Benjamin Netanyahu has to improve the practical circumstances of Palestinian Israelis. Is this really so controversial?

In Israel, could it be that not having a government is better than having one?

Rabbis are sending folks to do DNA tests to see if they’re Jewish. Really? I mean, really?