The bio-matrix
Should Israel require citizens to swap out old-fashioned identify cards and passports for new “biometric” ones even if they are invasive on our privacy?
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Coalition proposition disquisition
the dilemma facing opposition leader Isaac Herzog: Is opposition a form of perdition? Is joining the coalition electoral sedition demanding contrition?
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Crypto-Jewish women: The unwitting standard-bearers of Judaism
Prof. Renee Levine Melammed shares with us her insights from her momentous study about the history of crypto-Jewish women in Spain under the Inquisition.
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More than moneylending: The economic history of the Jews
Economist Zvi Eckstein of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya offers an compelling reason for demographic meanders of Jewish people in the common era.
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The lay of the land on Israel’s holiday of trees
One of the traditional things to do on today’s Jewish festival of Tu BiShvat is to plant trees. But what about in a ‘shmita’ year?
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Israeli archaeologists kill two birds with one stone engraving
Archaeologists were very glad to discover, while unearthing an ancient religious site in Israel, the names of two Australian soldiers etched into the stone.
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This Jewish Year in the News
GILAD HALPERN of ‘So Much To Say’ talks about Operation Protective Edge, Ehud Olmert’s sentencing, Avigdor Lieberman’s acquittal, and death of Sephardi Chief Rabbi, Ovadia Yosef.
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STORY OF THE WEEK: Naming names
Hagai El-Ad, Executive Director of Btselem, tells host Ilene Prusher why his organization is petitioning Israel’s High Court.
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This scud’s for you: Iranian arms ship intercepted
We get the lowdown on that boat, those Iranian missiles and the months long planning and execution of a daring raid-at-sea by Israel’s elite navy seals.
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