A Cabinet of Experts
There is a proposal to install “experts” instead of politicians as key cabinet ministers. Will this make all the difference?
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Uppity Americans?
Some Israeli Leftists think that American Jewish peace activists may be getting too big for their britches by organizing political action in Israel.
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Is a Peaceful Peace Process Born to Fail?
Nathan Thrall argues in his new book that only force has ever generated results in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and discusses the implications.
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Primum non nocere?
Medical experiments were performed on Yemeni Jewish children in the early 1950s. What does this tell us about ourselves and what should we do now?
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Romeo and Juliet Get Banned
Dorit Rabinyan discusses her controversial book “All The Rivers,” which became a bestseller after it was banned from high school required reading lists.
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Babies for LGBTQ Folk? Nyet!
Was Israel was wrong to acquiesce to Russia’s diktat that babies adopted from there not got to LGBTQ folks?
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Will Politics be on the Midterm?
The Minister of Education is advancing a “Code of Ethics” for college and university teachers, but it is being decried as an attack on democracy.
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Occupation: Happy Birthday to You
Gershon Shafir publishes a new book that documents how Israelis and Palestinians experience the occupation in all its facets.
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Is the Man Israel Needs a Moroccan, Ultra-Orthodox Woman?
Dina Dayan, an ultra-Orthodox woman from the Negev Desert, is the only female candidate to head the Labor Party. Is she the future of the Israeli Left?
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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, v.2015
Holger Michel unexpectedly became an refugee organizer and spokesperson. His book about his experiences describes the remarkable things he learned.
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