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Jun 12, 2018, 3:27 PM

Yes, singing Hatikva still matters

Tamar Ben-Ozer sings Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, to open the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, Sunday, March 1, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

To abandon the anthem is not to be inclusive, but to destroy the very idea for which Israel exists

Jul 3, 2017, 1:18 PM

Israelis don’t care that you’re insulted: An open letter to American Jews

Israeli protesters gather outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on July 1, 2017, to demonstrate against a government decision to abandon a deal for a permanent pluralistic prayer facility at the Western Wall jointly overseen by all streams of Judaism. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

American Jews should step back from Israeli security concerns, but lean way in when it comes to the matter of peoplehood

Jul 22, 2014, 4:51 PM

Say thank you – it’s the Jewish thing to do

Absent AIPAC’s work, Israeli citizens would have been butchered these past weeks, and Israeli cities would have gone up in flames. Strangely though, that seems to bother Israel’s alleged supporters who have their issues with AIPAC.

Jul 11, 2014, 3:13 PM

We Have Been Here Before

Children are seen in a bomb shelter of an apartment building in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on the third day of Operation Protective Edge, Thursday, July 10, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

First, we must win this war. Then, when the dust settles, we must ask ourselves what has happened to us

Nov 26, 2012, 3:22 AM

A responsibility to speak

To love all of humanity equally is ultimately to love no one

Nov 18, 2012, 3:22 PM

When balance becomes betrayal

We are utterly abandoned by those who ought to be unabashedly at our side

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About Me

Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President and Koret Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. His most recent book is "Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn." (Ecco/HarperCollins). He is now writing a book on American Jews and their relationships with Israel.