From the Margins to the Mainstream: Millennial Jews and the Reorientation of the Jewish Middle
The onset of COVID-19 and the ensuing economic crisis in early 2020 threw the world into a spin. Virtually overnight, travel shut down...
Israel-Diaspora Relations: A New Status Quo?
June 3, 2019 Birthright walkouts. The Nation-State Law. Broken promises over the Western Wall. These are just a few of the many tension...
Why this Israeli Election is Different
In this comprehensive analysis of Israel's elections, published the day before in Real Clear World, I lay out how elections in Israel...
Is the Chief Rabbinate becoming Obsolete?
I note that the Chief Rabbinate, an institution that once had relevance, has become obsolete. That is, since it was established for a...


What is Hamas's End-Game? Escalation Control
In this article, published in the Jerusalem Post Weekend Edition, and which was re-shared on Real Clear World, I wonder why Hamas would...


The Gazan Kite Offensive and the Arc of Human History
I write that Hamas' recent use of flaming kites, as was portrayed on Israel's Eretz Nehederet, "It's a Wonderful Land" political satire...
Rock-Paper-Scissors: The Israeli Political Edition
In this analysis / op-ed piece for The Tower, I claim that Benjamin Netanyahu’s, and by extension – Israel’s future, could go in any one...
Israel’s African migrant challenge: A new role for world Jewry
In this op-ed, Dov Maimon and I summarize the JPPI policy paper offering a solution to Israel's African migrant challenge, that balances...
An Integrated Jewish World Response to Israel’s Migrant Challenge
In this JPPI policy proposal, Dov Maimon and I examine Israel's challenge of what to do with 38,000 illegal African migrants - a dilemma...
Blinded by Their Dislike of Trump, the Reform Movement Miscalculated Badly on Jerusalem
In initially rejecting Trump's recognition of Jerusalem, a move celebrated by a consensus of Israelis from right to left, the American...