Waiting for Gadot
Is there widespread fascination with Wonder Woman Gal Gadot’s IDF past and Israeli identity, reflecting some strange and unnerving psycho-sexual fetishization?
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Anthologizing the Occupation?
A new anthology of essays about the occupation was published by several brilliant writers. What results might this politics-by-literature approach produce?
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Unchain My Heart: Shulem Deen’s Breakaway From Radical Hasidism
Shulem Deen’s book “All Who Go Do Not Return” is on the extreme insularity of Hasidic life and his journey to the secular world.
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Climate Change and the Jewish Question: We’ll Always Have Paris?
Is climate change a danger to Israel’s very existence? Does America’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord a blow to Israel’s security?
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University Diversity Perversity?
More ultra-Orthodox students could mean gender segregation and restrictions on female faculty. What should university inclusion and diversity cost?
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MK = Meager Kapabilities?
The Israel Democracy Institute asked parliamentary assistants how effectively members of Knesset do their jobs.
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Because It’s There: Shifting Discourses in the ‘Temple Mount Faithful’ Movement
Dr. Shlomo Fischer discusses the evolution, from the 1970s until today, of attempts to lift the ban prohibiting Jewish entrance to the Temple Mount.
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The Middle East: Guide to the Perplexed
Michael Hanna explains what he and his co-editor Thanassis Cambanis learned in their collection of 20 articles about Arab politics beyond the uprisings.
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