Zionism

Grapevine, September 12, 2025: The ever-revolving door

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

BARBARA SOFER (middle-left) and Barbara Goldstein flanked by Hadassah event chair Anne Rothenberg (left) and Hadassah Israel National President Rivkah Cooper.
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander looks on as members of PSC CUNY, AFT, and AAUP hold a press conference ahead of College administrators testifying to the House Education and Workforce Committee, in New York City, US, July 14, 2025.

Brad Lander calls for ‘coalition of anti-Zionists and liberal Zionists’ in appearance with Mamdani

DAVID BEN-GURION declares Israel a state on May 14, 1948. Says the writer: ‘For years, I refused to be a post-Holocaust Jew. Now, I don’t want October 7 Jews. Let’s be 1948 Jews – or 3,500-year-old Jews!’

Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism, and Jew-hatred - opinion

Corinne Baum speaks to Naftali Aklum

‘Beyond Herzl’: Naftali Aklum on Ethiopian Jewish heritage, Zionism, and Israel’s future


World Zionist Congress election results are finalized, Orthodox and right-wing secure slates

The certification confirmed significant gains for slates led by haredi Orthodox Jews and that right-wing and religious parties together hold a majority in the American delegation for the first time.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen before a portrait of Theodor Herzl, known as the "Visionary of the Jewish State" and the founder of modern Zionism in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018.

Still singing, dreaming, and hoping: David Broza at 70 - opinion

“I work non-stop – that’s what makes me happy,” David Broza told me this Sunday.

FROM LEFT: The writer, David Broza, and Grammy-award winning record producer Steve Greenberg pose during the recording of ‘East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem’ in 2013 in Jerusalem.

Reform Judaism and Zionism: The danger of misrepresentation - opinion

With the rise of anti-Jewish hatred and violence, the diverse spectrum of Jewish denominations must join together in solidarity.

THE WRITER leads a service at her synagogue, East End Temple.

Good medicine: A healing intercultural exchange in Jerusalem

Despite global hostility against Israel that has reached a peak since Oct. 7, they and many Native communities stand with the Jewish people.

The Riverwinds perform a Native American song at the Friends of Zion Museum.

Netanyahu Hails Recognition of 17 New Communities in Binyamin

“I said that we would build and hold fast to our land, our homeland, and we are doing it."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with his wife Sara, ministers, and Knesset members, at a tribute event

Zionists must get up and defeat the ‘silent intifada’ - opinion

Instead of wallowing in self-pity, Zionists should reconceptualize their approach.

PRO-ISRAEL counter-demonstrators gather amid protesters in support of Palestinians on the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) campus last year. Let’s learn from Zionism and US Jewish history, reframing and transcending, urges the writer.

'We are fighting Jews, not only Zionism,' Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi declares

“My definition of Judaism, ever since I was a child, has been that it is the same as Zionism,” Tamimi said, according to a translation by the MEMRI Institute. “There is no difference between them."

Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi walks with her mother after being released amid a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Ramallah, in the West Bank, November 30, 2023.

The Diaspora dilemma demands partnership, conversations when the stakes are highest - opinion

Diaspora Jewry is a partner in the State of Israel. It is affected by its decisions and has an obligation to speak out.

 Washington, D.C., USA November 14, 2023: Pro-Israel supporters stand, draped in the Israeli flag, with arms around each other.

Pete Buttigieg lacks principled leadership: He is not good for America - opinion

Political fashions may change, but America’s need for principled leaders remains constant.

Then-Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg speaks to voters in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2020.

The cost of 'Greater Israel': How messianic ideas are betraying Zionism - opinion

Israel’s recent military successes have created a geostrategic reality and a rare opportunity to significantly upgrade our national security.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu sits among his cabinet members as the Knesset passes a resolution, in favor of applying sovereignty over Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley, last month.

A nation and a story: Israel claims its destiny without shame - opinion

We must never shrink from our story. We are both a people and a faith, bound together across time, building a state grounded in both.

'Israel stands as a rare example of a nation unashamed of its identity as an ethnic state – a country with a story.'