The Great Neck Synagogue in suburban New York canceled a planned appearance by Islam critic Pamela Geller, citing security concerns.

TIAA-CREF officials are asking the SEC to allow it to take no action on a shareholder proposal by activist group Jewish Voice for Peace that would require it to consider divesting from companies that contribute to violations of human rights, including companies whose business supports Israel's occupation of the West Bank.

Can a Jewish state be a democratic one and, more to the point, is Israel a democracy?

Today Jewish Voice for Peace honors Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) On this day, we reflect on the horrors of World War II and the Nazi genocidal policies that led to the killing of some 11 million including Jews, Gypsies, Socialists, Poles, Soviets, gays, people with disabilities, dissenters and others all deemed unfit or a threat.

A controversial panel on whether Israel is a democracy took place last night at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York City.

Dozens gather for peace in Gaza on 10th year of Olympia activist's death.

For two student activists in Washington DC, Israel Apartheid Week and using the term ‘apartheid’ is an opportunity to alter perceptions and the discourse surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jewish Voice for Peace's National Membership Meeting is getting closer.

President Barack Obama visits the Middle East, which may have improved his relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but seems to have done little to progress Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Read Passover message from Rabbi Margaret Holub, and gather additional readings to bring to your Seder Table!

By Donna Nevel An event is taking place in New York City on April 4th to discuss the following questions: Is Israel—or can it be—a democracy?

Exciting times indeed.

By Cecilie Surasky, @CecilieSurasky on Twitter A few weeks ago, Brooklyn College stood up against a tsunami of whacked out, only-in-NY extremist-Israel politics and refused to either cancel or sever ties with a planned campus talk on the nonviolent Palestinian-led human rights movement known as Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).

I haven’t watched The Promise yet, the acclaimed UK mini-series about the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict under the British Mandate, but only because I just haven’t had a chance–though now I will.

First the good news: Welcome back to the 21st century NYC LGBT Center!

A friend wrote to us about a young ill Palestinian mother who was recently arrested in the West Bank, and their efforts to free her.

A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel.

Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days.