Gershom Gorenberg Dalal Rusrus A few months ago, when Dalal Rusrus completed her two weeks of treatment at Alyn Hospital in Jerusalem and her parents were told to bring her back on May 30 for a follow-up visit, I had two opposite premonitions. Logic said that after the weeks of wrangling with the Civil Administration [...]

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  Gershom Gorenberg I’m pleased to announce that my new book, The Unmaking of Israel — on the crisis of Israeli democracy and how to solve it — will be published in November by HarperCollins. I’ll be coming to North America for a lecture tour at that time. The book is now available for pre-order [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg A conversation with Robert Wright at Bloggingheads.tv on Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, the packed last week and a half, and what happens between now and the U.N. showdown in September:

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Gershom Gorenberg My new column is up at The American Prospect: Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Hamas regime in Gaza, may be Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s favorite Palestinian leader — a true ally, a blood brother. What they share is an all-or-nothing approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: either complete Palestinian rule over the [...]

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Haim Watzman The quarter-moon hovers low on the horizon as Gadi speeds the pickup truck the length of the Jezreel valley. From the passenger seat I gaze up at the stars sparkling above the Hill of Moreh, where Gideon mustered his troops. It’s my second trip down the valley this night to the hospital in [...]

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The death of my younger son, Niot, has been a heavy blow to me and my family. As we approach the end of the 30-day mourning period, I have created pages in Hebrew and English containing a short biography of Niot as well as instructions about how to contribute to the two projects we are [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg From my new column in Moment: … Why does Israel Bonds still exist in 2011? To broaden the question, do other classic Israeli fund-raising institutions serve a legitimate purpose anymore, at least in their present forms? Don’t get me wrong. Giving isn’t obsolete. It’s great that Jews like to give. “Checkbook Judaism” is [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg My new column is up at The American Prospect: Daniella Weiss has a soft smile and a round face that is remarkably unwrinkled for a woman of 66 known for most of her adult life as an incendiary activist. A cloth cap covers her hair, in keeping with a strict reading of Orthodox [...]

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