Bernard Avishai

Bernard Avishai has written dozens of articles and commentaries for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harvard Business Review, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. His new book, The Hebrew Republic, will be published in April (Harcourt). He is also the author of The Tragedy of Zionism and A New Israel. He holds a doctorate in political economy from the University of Toronto, and has taught at Duke, MIT, and the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. He currently splits his time between Jerusalem and Wilmot, New Hampshire.

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Israel Isn’t Ready For A Black American President

Barack Obama's speech at AIPAC was so winning, and his applause so warm, that it…

If Olmert Falls, What’s Next For Israel?

Israeli journalists are pre-celebrating Israel's sixtieth with a big, compelling story, yet another police investigation…

If Obama’s An Elitist, Then So Is Orwell

People enduring severe economic stress “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who…

Israelis Getting Nervous After Barack Obama Says U.S. Must Reject “Unwavering Pro-Likud Approach to Israel”

It would be understandable if Barack Obama were frustrated by responses to his candidacy in…

Peace Now and The Failure of the Israeli Peace Movement

Last Saturday evening, I attended a memorial for Peace Now activist Emil Grunzweig, a young…

The Toll of War in Gaza

It is getting harder and harder to find leaders in the Kadima-Labor government who are…

Barack Obama: America’s First Jewish President

In 1963, the young editor of Commentary, Norman Podhoretz, wrote a strangely confessional article (the…