Author: Ben Lorber

• Soon, opposing the occupation will be fashionable for American Jews- but is that a good thing?

  Here’s a nightmare fantasy of mine. Before long, mainstream Democrat-voting American Jews won’t be afraid to talk about the occupation. Quite the contrary- they’ll insist at social gatherings that they’ve…

• No, Zionists, Jewishness does not stagnate in diaspora

  So Tablet just published an awful article, ‘The Art of Christmas Avoidance: Feeling Jewish Enough to Enjoy the Spirit of Christmas in Israel’. Articles like this come out every Christmas,…

• Hanukkah Today- Resisting Complicity in Empire

  Today, what Hellenization looks like for the Jewish people is Zionism, and complicity in Empire and white supremacy. The notion that the Land of Israel is real estate, that the…

• A Spot at the Kotel Won’t Save Us: A Crisis in American Judaism

  (originally published in Tikkun) “Remember the days of the world; understand the years of each generation” (Devarim, 32:7) “…that [we] may turn the heart of the fathers back through the…

• Why did a Jewish philanthropist tweet this anti-Semitic image of George Soros?

  A version of this article was originally published at the Jewish Daily Forward. Yesterday, a tweet making the rounds online depicted George Soros, progressive Hungarian Jewish philanthropist, as an octopus…

• Stewards of Remembrance

  There is a gift of remembrance, nestled in the human heart, that makes the angels tremble with jealousy. Remembrance is not the simple muscle memory of the living creature, human…

• Our Relationship to the Land

  ‘Every Jew has a stake in the Land of Israel, and therefore what is done in Israel is the business of every Jew.’ – the Lubavitcher Rebbe, 1970 In the…

• Present in the Book

  “In the book,” he said, “writing means absence, and the empty page, presence. Thus God, who is absence, is present in the book.” – Edmond Jabes, ‘The Book of Questions’

• History as a trial

  ‘To present history as a trial in which man as advocate for mute nature makes a complaint against the nonappearance of the promised Messiah. The court, however, decides to hear…