The Jewish Week

When journalist Peter Beinart talks about the growing alienation between young American Jews and Israel, and with their Jewish practice, he is quick to point out that he isn't referring to the Orthodox. Indeed, young Orthodox Jews, reflecting their ...

with a panel including writer Peter Beinart, whose argument that young Jews are distancing themselves from Israel as it becomes less democratic continues to spark discussion and debate. At the session, he found little argument when he called the ...

This observation, critiqued sharply by Peter Beinart in a widely cited essay last year, resonates particularly among some younger American Jews. Some weeks back I participated in “The Conversation,” a remarkable set of dialogues convened by The Jewish ...

Stepping back, it seems that the Peter Beinart Syndrome — the concern, expressed a year ago in The New York Review of Books that young American Jews are choosing liberal values over Zionist ones — has reached our liberal rabbinic seminaries. ...

Lerner, for years, if not decades, has been warning in Tikkun that the pro-Israel organizations in the United States were alienating young American Jews, but it was only when Peter Beinart wrote “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” in ...

“It doesn't make sense for them to come to the table,” said Levy, who is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, as Palestinians see the land they envision as their state getting smaller. Noting that the number of Jewish settlers ...

The Century Foundation's Daniel Levy said that for US policymakers, the focus now should be on finding ways to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations ...

Until six months ago, Peter Beinart was best known in the Jewish community as a talented young writer and editor for The New Republic, where he worked from ...

The same type of thing might have happened to Peter Beinart. An admired author and former editor of The New Republic, Beinart published a devastating ...

And Peter Beinart's essay in the NYRB — which attacked Jewish leaders for failing to inspire a new generation of Jews committed to Israel — urged a more ...