Liberal

Altruistic Aliyah: A tool for world Jewry to transform Israeli policy from within - opinion

The moment a diaspora Jew becomes an Israeli citizen, they cease to be a passive bystander affected by Israel's policies - they become an active participant in shaping them.

|ByGILAD RAMOT
New French Jewish immigrants arrive at Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel on August 3, 2026.
Many Evangelicals participate in the United for Israel March outside Columbia University in New York City in 2024.

Don’t ignore the similarities between the persecution of Israelis and US Christians - opinion

Netanyahu equates attacking Jews who support Israel to attacking Evangelicals for good reason; both faiths are founded on Zionism

|ByMIKE EVANS
Brad Lander, candidate for New York’s 10th Congressional District, Congressional candidate Claire Valdez and Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier attend the Get Out the Vote rally in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., June 18, 2026.

Moderate Dems. brace for internal war after Mamdani-backed candiates win NYC primaries

One moderate House Democrat told Axios that "there's going to be a war," and went so far as to call the rising number of leftist party members "bomb-throwers, not problem solvers."

|ByCORINNE BAUM
A fullmoon rises over the Temple of Poseidon, the ancient Greek god of the seas, in Cape Sounion, east of Athens, Greece, July 8, 2017.

The West funds its own executioners in ideological war it barely realizes it is fighting - opinion

Institutional capture, ideological conformity, and foreign-backed authoritarian movements are challenging the individual freedoms that once formed the core of Western civilization.

|ByALI SIADATAN / THE MEDIA LINE

There is no democracy without liberal values

A regime – no matter what its name –  that does not define human dignity as its supreme value is not just undemocratic and illiberal, it is also inhuman.

JANUARY 13, 2023ByDR. DANA BLANDER
Thousands of Israelis demonstrate for democracy and against the new government’s judicial reform plan, in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square on January 7.

Don't worry, diaspora Jewry is not suing for divorce from Israel - opinion

Liberal Jewish leaders need to stop claiming that relations with Diaspora Jewry are at risk.

JANUARY 8, 2023ByDAVID ELIEZRIE
The flags of Israel and the US are seen at a table during a meeting between officials from the two countries.

Toss that word salad: Political correctness changed our words - opinion

That’s how “double mastectomy” becomes “top surgery” or a “chest-masculinization” procedure. It’s how what was once called a “sex change” is now a “gender-confirming” operation.

OCTOBER 22, 2022ByBRIAN BLUM
NO VEGETABLES, croutons or gourds were offended in the use of this image.

Progressive Jewish group launches think tank to counter spread of right-wing ideas

The think tank will fund research, host events with scholars, and publish essays that draw on Jewish traditions.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022ByASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
Rabbi Rachel Kahn Troster, T’ruah’s director of programs (left) and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Truah’s executive director (right) marching along 5th Avenue.

Netanyahu has finally removed 'liberal' from Likud's identity - opinion

It is time to remove “Liberal” from the party name. Today, the Likud stands for one thing and one thing only: how to keep its leader out of court and jail.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022ByYAAKOV KATZ
Head of the Likud Party Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem this week.

Conspiracy theories don't align with political orientation - study

Belief in conspiracy theories is primarily dependent upon its content, a new study that examined 52 conspiracy theories in the US found.

JULY 27, 2022ByALDEN TABAC
A woman wears a jacket with a QAnon logo while hundreds of vehicles including 18-wheeler trucks, RVs and other cars are parked as part of a rally at Hagerstown Speedway after some of them arrived as part of a convoy that traveled across the country headed to Washington D.C. to protest coronavirus d

Women are now leading three liberal-religious-Israeli movements

Yochi Rappaport said that she hoped one day a female director-general will be chosen in the Bnei Akiva movement she grew up in.

APRIL 7, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN
NEW FACES of Judaism. From left, Yochi Rappaport, Anna Kislanski and Rakefet Ginsberg.

LGBTQ education and Israel’s illiberal Left - opinion

Tal Gilboa comes under fire for challenging Orwellian doublethink.

FEBRUARY 17, 2022ByRUTHIE BLUM
God reaching out to an LGBTQ person in the style of Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam."

Whoopi Goldberg should be suspended from ABC for good - opinion

Thank you Goldberg for exposing the truth about the progressive liberal dogma.

FEBRUARY 6, 2022ByGEORGE BIRNBAUM
Whoopi Goldberg attends a benefit event in New York City, Sept. 13, 2021.

Deputy foreign minister aims to woo progressives, policies get in the way

Idan Roll's challenge is that he is bound by an Israeli political reality that has shifted to the right, while his mission as Israel’s deputy foreign minister is to repair ties with progressives.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
Yesh Atid MK Idan Roll, April 23, 2020