Posts Tagged: Benjamin Kerstein
Ben Shapiro Is Wrong, the Free Market Would Be a Disaster for Israel
JNS.org - While I was studying at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheva in the early 2000s, I once discussed the Israeli economy with...
The Coming Election Campaign Will Be the Ugliest in Israel’s History
JNS.org - With the collapse of the current government, Israel is facing yet another election. It will be the fifth in three-and-a-half years, cost enormous...
The ‘Mapping Project’ Proves There Is Only One ‘Jewish Issue’
JNS.org - Much has been written in recent days about a Boston BDS group’s online map of Jewish sites across Massachusetts. The “Mapping Project” ostensibly...
When Your Family Is the Victim of Antisemitism
JNS.org - Recently, and at long last, the antisemite who has been vandalizing my family’s business in a Jewish suburb of Boston for nearly a...
Israel Needs a National Referendum on Election Reform
JNS.org - That the Israeli political system is dysfunctional has long been obvious, but this dysfunction now appears to have reached a point of critical...
Is Man Good, Evil, or Something in Between? A Response
The question of man’s innate goodness has been debated recently in The Algemeiner, beginning with a column by Rabbi Pini Dunner arguing both that man’s...
Examining the ‘Israeli Century’
It seems undeniable that the Jewish world’s center of gravity has shifted decisively in favor of Israel. The Jewish state now contains the majority of...
Settlements: Calamity or Fulfillment?
Benjamin Kerstein has been commended as “one of the finest American-Israeli authors of his generation.” But his recent Algemeiner critique — “Zionism, Messianism and the...
The Plague and a God of Absolute Freedom
Our current predicament, faced with a pandemic whose sudden appearance and terrible toll confuses and terrifies us, has occasioned much comment from the religiously-minded. In these...
Why Anti-Zionism Is Worse Than Antisemitism
There is currently a noisy and often bitter debate over the issue of anti-Zionism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the Jewish community, which remains...
An Attack on Zioness Is an Attack on True, Needed Supporters of Israel
“Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?” Henry Miller had one of his characters ask, and one regrets to say that one sometimes wonders...
Why the Torah Can — and Should Be — Considered a ‘Human’ Document
Despite the passage of several centuries, the debate over the authorship of the Torah is apparently far from over, if one is to judge by...
How to Save Israeli Democracy From Netanyahu
Israeli politics has often been made in the streets, and if Saturday night’s demonstration in Tel Aviv against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “immunity law” --...
