A Shared Language Lost
The Netanyahus captures a time before American and Israeli Jews underwent a great fissure.

The Netanyahus captures a time before American and Israeli Jews underwent a great fissure.
What is happening in Sheikh Jarrah lies at the heart of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Surely it is not just a matter of age or biology, but something more—a collective frustration with the world as it is and a desire to find new ways to change it.

Histories of socialism usually begin with the Old Testament prophets, mighty preachers against usury and “those that buy the poor for silver,” visionaries of a golden age and messengers of perpetual peace. Their god was a god of Justice above …