Israel/Palestine
How to Have Healing Public Conversations About Israel-Palestine
Structured, facilitated dialogue among Jews about Israel-Palestine issues can help heal communal rifts and tensions.
Seeing Israel and Palestine With New Eyes
One rabbi’s trip to Israel/Palestine in 2018 challenges her ideas about Israel, and offers new insight into the experiences of Israelis and Palestinians.
To Live This Utopia, for Moments
Sulaiman Khatib (“Souli”) co-founded and co-directed Combatants for Peace, a group of former Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters who come together to work nonviolently for peace.
Pride Month, Israel and Us
A personal message from Rabbi Deborah Waxman.
Healing the Soul and Healing the World
We are flying home from Israel/Palestine after the pioneer trip with Combatants for Peace.[1]The...
November Adult Ed Beit Midrash
In 2018, Rabbis Toba Spitzer and Brant Rosen engaged in an epistolary back and forth on Evolve about the questions of narrative writing around Israel/Palestine. By studying their words, we find a model for how to engage with kavod in a makhloket leshem shamayim.
“If we can do it, then anyone can”
“You may not kill anybody in the name of my child,” Robi Damelin said shortly after being told by...
‘Zionism Yes — And’
Zionism is a modern movement that has employed age-old beliefs to support the urgent need for a refuge from antisemitism. Zionists today are obligated to move Israel to embody Jewish values of justice and peace.
Standing in Solidarity With Palestinians: Reflections of a Reconstructionist Rabbi
As younger non-Orthodox Jews increasingly grow wary of the American Jewish establishment’s...
Teaching Israel at Camp
Camp Havaya programs cultivate a love of Israel in campers, and present Israel realistically. Campers learn how to listen deeply to those with whom they disagree.
Is It Antisemitic to Consider Zionism a Colonial Project?
Rabbi Gluskin distinguishes between “œcolonialism” and “settler colonialism.” Recent use of the term “settler colonialism” correlates with a demand for Palestinian rights rather than with a delegitimization of the State of Israel.
One State, Two States: The Road to Justice in Israel
Annexing Jewish settlement in the territories ends the possibility of a two-state solution and seriously endangers Israeli democracy.
Our Responsibility
Drawing from teachings in the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi David Teutsch teaches that “silence is consent.” For American Jewish communities, keeping silent about injustice emerging in Israel makes Jews complicit in those acts of injustice.
A Brief Primer on Coalitions
A discussion of how and why coalitions are effective in enacting political change and moving issues forward.
Interpreting Jewish History in Light of Zionism
How seriously should the Zionist reading of Jewish history affect the way we interpret the meaning of the Jewish past and the significance of contemporary events?
Evolve is a project of Reconstructing Judaism
