Opinion Take the Knee as an Act of Yom Kippur
We take the knee for all the times this frightening past year when we, as a society and as individuals, needed to take a stand and failed to act
Bradley Burston
Bradley Burston is a Haaretz columnist and Senior Editor of Haaretz.com which publishes his blog, "A Special Place in Hell."
During the first Palestinian uprising, Burston served as Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, and was the paper's military correspondent in the 1991 Gulf War.
In the mid-1990s he covered Israeli-Arab peace talks for Reuters. In 2006, he received the Eliav-Sartawi Award for Mideast Journalism, presented at the United Nations.
A native of Los Angeles, Burston moved to Israel after graduation from Berkeley. He was part of a group which established Kibbutz Gezer, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Burston served in the IDF as a combat medic, later studying medicine in Be'er Sheva for two years before turning to journalism. He is married and has two daughters.
Opinion This Year for Rosh Hashanah, I'm Divorcing Netanyahu's Israel. Settlements Included
Look back to last Rosh Hashanah, and tell me that this is the same world, the same Israel, the same America. Tell me that in the age of the Trump and Bibi show, the sewers have not opened full
Opinion If America's Civil War Were Today, Netanyahu's Israel Would Side With the South
There was a time when Israelis joked, half in hope and half in reservation, that this country was becoming the 51st Of the United States. No longer. Now it feels more like the 12th state - of the Confederacy
Opinion Miller the DACA-killer: Trump Aide a Disgrace to Jews, and to Our Common Roots
Stephen Miller’s family came from my dad’s village, in Belarus. Immigration is why Steve and I are both alive; now it’s his job to help kill the program protecting young immigrants to the U.S.
Opinion Memo From California to Trump and His Nazis: We Will Replace You
To the horror of the Jewish community in the East Bay, there's been a wave of anti-Semitic incidents here lately, and everyone here knows why
Opinion Who Will Build the Statue of Donald Trump?
The Ku Klux Klan scared my grandmother to death. I'm glad my grandmother, who loved America as much as anyone alive, never lived to see Trump
Opinion Israel Under Trump: Welcome to the New Home of Nazi Denial
Even for Israel, where Beyond Belief is another name for the place all of us live in all the time, there seems something impossible, something bordering on science fiction, about this country engaging in Nazi-washing
Opinion Netanyahu's Revenge: Silence and Sidestep on Nazis in Charlottesville
This is the message of Netanyahu's silence: I am not the prime minister of the Jewish people. I am the prime minister of all of the Jewish people who are right-wing, pro-settlement, anti-Palestinian, pro-Me
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What if there were a peace plan that actually offered the people on both sides something that they would truly want?
Opinion Jerusalem Pride March Is a YES Vote on Hope, but This Chief Rabbi Just Voted a Crude NO
Thousands of brave people will walk the streets of Jerusalem on Thursday. May the God who created them all keep them safe from harm. And from Lehava. And from Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu