Eric Yoffie

The time has come for Jewish camps to discard their obsession with “unity” and “solidarity” and set aside their bizarre reluctance to talk about the political issues at the very heart of ...

https://ericyoffie.com/how-should-u-s-jewish-summer-camps-teach-about-israel-post-october-7/

This week Israel’s Cabinet is planning to discuss, and possibly approve, a contentious bill that would continue to exempt ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from being drafted into the army. Exemp...

https://ericyoffie.com/israels-ultra-orthodox-jews-wont-serve-in-the-army-u-s-jews-need-to-speak-up/

Most U.S. Jews and Israelis oppose an unconditional cease-fire. But how should we respond to the young American Jews who vociferously criticize Israel’s “atrocities” and the Biden administr...

https://ericyoffie.com/why-most-american-jews-oppose-an-immediate-end-to-the-war-in-gaza/

At a time when antisemitism is exploding in America and Israel faces an existential threat, why would Trump’s Jewish apologists back a Putin sycophant susceptible to rising GOP isolationism, a ...

https://ericyoffie.com/trumps-jewish-megadonors-are-making-a-disastrous-mistake/

This article was published in The Times of Israel on October 10, 2023. I offer five observations on the response of American Jews to recent events in Israel. 1. When the Hamas attacks were initia...

https://ericyoffie.com/revulsion-anger-action-american-jews-and-israel/

With the Hebrew month of Tishrei fast approaching, every rabbi in America is agonizing over their sermon topics for the upcoming High Holy Days. What is in store for the Jews in the year ahead? W...

https://ericyoffie.com/american-jews-wake-up-a-rosh-hashanah-sermon/

A version of the below article appeared in Haaretz on July 24, 2023. The moral collapse of Israeli Orthodoxy is at the heart of Israel’s current crisis. To be sure, there is a political dimensi...

https://ericyoffie.com/fundamentalist-orthodox-judaism-is-dealing-a-death-blow-to-israels-democracy/

Netanyahu is acting dishonorably, installing a menagerie of fringe-dwelling fanatics in his government, and he is pushing Israel’s political culture to the edge of collapse. A lot of Reform Jew...

https://ericyoffie.com/we-can-reignite-zionism-in-america-right-now-by-opposing-israels-government/

As Netanyahu’s new government has become increasingly unhinged, the task of American Jewish supporters of Israel has become untenable. Pro-Israel advocacy in the United States is on the verge o...

https://ericyoffie.com/after-years-of-netanyahu-us-israel-ties-are-on-life-support/

I have never once lobbied against an Israeli government. But Netanyahu’s judicial coup, his offensive against democracy, must be stopped. That means U.S. Jews must do the unthinkable, and urge ...

https://ericyoffie.com/american-jews-lobby-the-biden-administration-to-act-against-israels-obscene-government/