Can American Jews make demands on Israel if they don’t live there? Both Israel and the Diaspora must admit that emotional resentment is bad for both of them. Blake Flayton Nov. 16, 2022
The Holocaust and Lithuania’s family secret “The Nazi’s Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal” is a story of one family’s dark past and one country’s shame. Blake Flayton Aug. 11, 2022
Russia’s ‘Fifth Column’ As long as Jews dare to be Jewish, we are a fifth column, guilty of treason, of espionage, of conspiracy, just by being ourselves. Blake Flayton July 28, 2022
Joe Biden’s two-state miscalculation When the U.S. president calls for a two-state solution but simultaneously pledges further support for UNRWA, he makes that solution impossible. Blake Flayton July 20, 2022
The great return theory Anti-Zionism and white nationalism have a great deal in common. Blake Flayton June 2, 2022
Bob Dylan’s bohemian Zionism The singer-songwriter’s pro-Israel anthem points the way toward a renewal of Zionist activism Blake Flayton May 18, 2022
The aspiration of a Jewish democracy A Jewish democracy is a dream to live up to and we all need to take part in it, because ‘if you will it, it is no dream.’ Blake Flayton May 11, 2022