Jeffrey Goldberg
Sundown: Biden Defends Israeli Self-Defense
Plus Obama forsakes sticks and stones against Syria, and more
How Israeli Elections Affect an Attack on Iran
Why Bibi wants a new government before U.S. Election Day
Debate Continues to Rage Over ‘Zionist B.D.S.’
Which might be more a case of ‘Zionist B.S.’
Israel-U.S. Mistrust on Iran Paves Way to Attack
As U.S. drops signals of dissuasion, Netanyahu, Israeli leaders press on
A Few Notes on the Obama Interview
On Barak, the Palestinians, non-proliferation, and politics
Daybreak: ‘Something We *Have* to Solve’
Plus sanctions cause India to stop buying Iranian oil, and more in the news
Sentimental Journey
In the new collected stories of Nathan Englander, and in his revised Haggadah, Jews cling tenuously to the easily broken chains of tradition
Sundown: Auster Takes on Erdogan
Plus circumcisions done in a snap, Goldberg on Mearsheimer, and more
The Hitler Test
The strongest evidence that the taboo against anti-Semitism is being eroded is the fact that obvious forms of verbal abuse are tolerated—even justified
Sounding Off
Note to some of my fellow progressives: If we can’t argue about Israel without using anti-Semitic tropes, then the debate is lost before it even begins
Sundown: U.S. to Shutter Embassy in Syria
Plus, Atlanta publisher under fire, college kids for Ron Paul, and more
A Brief History of the NYT’s Israel Coverage
Inside baseball on Jerusalem bureau chiefs past and present
How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
- Spotlight On: Andrew Steinthal, Co-founder of ‘The Infatuation’
- Haim Rocks Out at Coachella
- Susan Sontag Documentary to Debut at the Tribeca Film Festival
- This Passover, I’m Liberating Myself From My Anorexia—By Eating Chametz
