Is the Palestinian Authority shutting down, mind-melding with Hamas, or what? Why does the new strongman Rabbi atop the ultra-orthodox Shas party think that all the rest of us are ignoramuses? Could it be, like the OECD claims, that Israel is “the land of low taxes”? Plus, the new album by indie demi-god Uzi Ramirez, on The Promised Podcast.
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She may have been a 23-year old poet but she was tough as nails. Hannah Szenes met her end before a firing squad in Nazi-occupied Budapest after she parachuted in to save Jews on their way to Auschwitz.
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British-born Rachel Erdos moved to Israel 12 years ago and has since risen to prominence as one of Israel’s leading choreographers. During her short yet eventful career, she has choreographed a number of dance pieces, showcased her work in virtually every festival in the country, and toured the world.
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Coffee culture is everywhere in Israel. How do you ask for a cappuccino to go, the Tel-Avivi way? And what’s הפוך דל? Here’s your short Hebrew language manual for all you coffeeholics
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Guil Bonstein, musical editor and expert on history of slavery and Caribbean history, discussed the contemporary relevancy of The Slave Ship: A Human History by American maritime historian Marcus Rediker, which recently came out in Hebrew, thanks to him.
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Should it bother us that that the average CEO in Israel makes 76 times what the average rest-of-us make?
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One of the basic tenets of most theories of the nation is that concepts like self-determination, sovereignty, and self-sufficiency are sine qua non for states. But some states — “phantom states” — have most of the attributes of sovereign states, except, well, sovereignty. One such “phantom state” is Palestine.
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Mahmoud Abbas’s Hail Mary plays
Is the Palestinian Authority shutting down, mind-melding with Hamas, or what?
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