לאונרד כהן לא יגיע אלינו הפעם. אבל במילים ובמנגינות מהביקור ההוא במלחמה ההיא אולי נמצא נחמה, כוח, וכיוון. בספטמבר נצא לסיבוב חדש של המופע "מי באש" עם אסתר רדה, מאיה בלזיצמן, וגבע אלון, בהפקת בית אבי חי. נגיע לב"ש, אשדוד, חיפה, ירושלים ות"א. לכרטיסים: bac.org.il/specials/?proj…

Today's Front Page from The Free Press is amazingly good: Matti Friedman on the Hamas + Hezbollah hits River Page on White Dudes for Kamala Eli Lake on what Biden can do for Venezuela Peter Savodnik on the veepstakes Uri Berliner on the Fed Evan Gardner on Simon Biles And as

The Haniyeh obits illuminate a media world that has gone almost entirely off the rails.

Two assassinations and Israel’s January 6 - after a dramatic week, Yonit Levi and I break it all down with the always insightful Matti Friedman. Latest Unholy open.spotify.com/episode/3f96xT…

Four years ago I wrote about the peace processors and the "habits of mind" that characterize their analysis. New situations, new challenges, and the same furrowed brows unmoved by how consistently wrong they have been about everything. 1/3 mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel-z…

Even in dark times, it's always a pleasure to speak to my wise friends and colleagues Yonit Levi and Jonathan Freedland on Unholy. A week of whiplash in Israel, with more seemingly to come: open.spotify.com/episode/3f96xT…

We’ve been busy!

Look! The real copies just arrived. V exciting. Ive been working hard to fully revise & update my book JERUSALEM for a new paperback edition out 5 September. It's the story of the Holy City & Holy Land over 3000yrs, but it's a story much bigger than that, and I hope it can help

A fascinating dive into one example of the liberal West's vulnerability to a very specific brand of illiberalism. From the talented (and, crucially, Persian-speaking) Roya Hakakian for Quillette: quillette.com/2024/08/08/the…

Thanks to the The Point Magazine for hosting me to discuss the gap between perception and reality in Israel: thepointmag.com/dialogue/israe…

Israel's three-front war -- against genocidal neighbors, the international movement to criminalize the Jewish state and the rise of the Israeli far-right that would turn us into the criminals our enemies say we are. My conversation with the Times of Israel:

A very worthwhile profile of a unique American politician, by Peter Savodnik at The Free Press:

really excellent, clear eyed and timely analysis by Jonathan Chait

Exactly 200 years ago, a disturbing painting debuted in Paris, depicting a massacre in a distant corner of the Mediterranean. No other work in the artistic canon speaks more to the events of Oct. 7 than this one. blogs.timesofisrael.com/scenes-from-th…

"The events that have unfolded since the day Hersh Goldberg-Polin disappeared are bewildering. But today, here in Jerusalem, for a moment they regained a kind of terrible simplicity, reduced to one beautiful human face." Matti Friedman in The Free Press: thefp.com/p/among-the-mo…

Here in Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s neighborhood in Jerusalem, the bewildering events of the past year were reduced to one beautiful human face. Matti Friedman writes from Jerusalem: thefp.pub/47bNqF8

While telling the public otherwise, Netanyahu's government is allowing the most extreme party in Israeli politics to run the most sensitive site under Israeli control. It's hard to overstate how reckless and dangerous this is.

Op-ed: Under Netanyahu, Israel is in existential danger timesofisrael.com/under-netanyah… via @timesofisrael