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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."

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.
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

 Re-CHARGING Reform Judaism conference on May 31, 2023

Banning anti-Zionist rabbis is the enlightened and liberal position - opinion

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My Word: When pride meets prejudice - opinion


Ruth Gavison's commitment to liberal nationalism is lasting legacy

“We must find ways to live together, not necessarily to decide in favor of one or another direction.”

Hebrew University of Jerusalem law professor Ruth Gavison speaks in the Knesset in 2017.

Despite pressure, no major changes to Democratic platform on Israel

There were nods to calls for the platform to more equitably treat the Palestinians than it has in the past.

US President Joe Biden gestures after disembarking from a plane upon landing at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel March 8, 2016

Peter Beinhart's betrayal of Liberal Zionism and Israel

The progressive pope seeks to denude the Jewish state of its rightful place.

PETER BEINART: The notion of a state for Palestinians separated from a state for Jews, has failed.

Liberal democracy is not a Jewish value, nor should it be - opinion

Israel should be a law-abiding democracy but preferably not a liberal one.

Jeremy Corbyn with Rabbi Pinter, former Labour Labour councillor

Jewish public defender elected San Francisco district attorney

The son of jailed anti-war radicals, Chesa Boudin stood on a progressive platform

Voting booths are seen during the New York primary elections at a polling station in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, US, April 19, 2016

Right From Wrong: What Trump doesn’t understand about Jews

U.S. President Donald Trump

Israelis more liberal on religion, views on equality more mixed - analysis

According to polling by the Hiddush organization, a religious pluralism advocacy organization, support for gay marriage has been steadily rising, with 78% of the Jewish public today supporting it.

Man holds a Star of David rainbow flag at the 2017 Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade

The progressive case for AIPAC

I am an unapologetic Zionist and a proud supporter of AIPAC.

Workers set the stage at the AIPAC conference in Washington, March 2

Religious candidates in Labor make their pitch to liberal national-religious voters

There were numerous appeals to Biblical injunctions against the oppression of minorities, while “Kahanists” and Otzma Yehudit bore the brunt of the attack.

MK Revital Swid (Labor) speaking at a campaign event in Jerusalem, March 16, 2019

Jewish-American lesbian elected Michigan Attorney General

Nessel, who grew up attending the Reform congregation Temple Kol Ami in West Bloomfield Township, in the Detroit metropolitan area, traces many of her values back to Judaism.

Plaintiffs April Deboer (L) and her partner Jayne Rowse leave the Federal Court with their attorney Dana Nessel (R) following closing arguments on their trial that could overturn Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage in Detroit, Michigan March 7, 2014