Shaping history rather than being shaped by it.

In the U.S., Jews, too, have absorbed Protestant individualism.

When “aliyah” becomes a dirty word.

Better than giving $70,000 a year to an institution where anti-Zionism flourishes.

The annual piyyut festival.

Particularism vs. universalism.

What growing divide?

Separated by a common language?

The more complicated Israel becomes, the less it is understood by American Jews.

Not alike.

He’s done nothing anti-democratic—and he’s curbed the growth of settlements.

If anything, the opposite is true.

Bad news for propagandists.

Israelis don’t understand these denominations’ important place in American Jewish life.