Mondo Weiss

Idiosyncratic and influential anti-Zionist blogger Philip Weiss has a complicated relationship with Israel, American Jewry, and himself

Hear Israel

When the Weavers recorded the popular Israeli folk song ‘Tzena Tzena’ in 1950, they did more than legitimize a strain of musical culture; they introduced Israel to a generation of young Americans

Spurned

Barack Obama courted American Jews as a candidate, but the relationship is on the rocks

Debating Israel From Afar

Jeffrey Goldberg and Jeremy Ben-Ami lock shofars

No Direction Home

Maybe American liberal Zionism simply isn’t worth saving

Slips of the Tongue

What the use of Yiddish phrases can tell us about contemporary American Jewry