Jewish Daily Forward

The invitation of author Peter Beinart, whose essay drew attention to this problem last year, to the recent General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America highlighted the Jewish establishment's effort to grapple with this problem. ...

But it leads to the disconnect that I, as well as Peter Beinart and others, have lately decried: that American Jewish institutions don't speak for most American Jews. Yes, in congressional districts like New York's 9th, blocs of Orthodox Jews will vote ...

Following the publication of Gordis's piece and of Peter Beinart's June 2010 essay in The New York Review of Books, arguing that young non-Orthodox American Jews were growing alienated from Israel, Eisen said that he had been asked repeatedly how this ...

There are moral issues' — well, I'd rather have that problem than raise my children and say Israel is no different than Spain,” Peter Beinart, a professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, said to me by telephone recently. ...

Political writer Peter Beinart argued earlier last year that “saving liberal Zionism in the United States — so that American Jews can help save liberal Zionism in Israel — is the great American Jewish challenge of our age.” Beinart thinks the problem ...

A little more than a year ago, in his widely disseminated essay in The New York Review of Books, Peter Beinart pointedly observed that outside of the Orthodox world, younger American Jews (whose parents and grandparents were overwhelmingly Zionist ...

Netanyahu gave them nothing,” said Daniel Levy, co-director of the Middle East task force at the New America Foundation. “It is clear that one intention of this speech is to attempt to encourage a conversation inside Israel that takes a harder look at ...

Daniel Levy, senior research fellow and co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, said Congress has always been a “bastion of support” for Netanyahu, a fact that the Israeli prime minister has used to his benefit. ...

Critics, most notably Peter Beinart and organizations such as J Street, claim that because establishment Jewish organizations have stifled criticism of Israel, Jews — particularly young liberal Jews — are increasingly alienated from the Jewish state. ...

“It is an anchor of intellectual life in DC,” agreed Peter Beinart, professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and former editor of The New Republic. That intellectual energy, that fierce love, explains why instead of looking merely to sell, ...