If I Don’t Press Thee, O’ Jerusalem, or The Dress!
Miri Regev made headlines and launched a thousand memes at the Cannes Film Festival by wearing a dress bearing a 360 degree view of Jerusalem.
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Road Trip!
Zionist Union leaders Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni embarked on a trip across the Green Line to “connect with grassroots voters” in the settlement blocs.
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The New Sepharad: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Salonica
Stanford professor Aron Rodrigue discusses the history of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community, which became the largest Jewish city in Europe before Nazi occupation.
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Donald Does the Holy Land!
He came, he saw, he davened. We discuss President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel and how his vision for peace stacks up.
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Israel, Slipping Through my Fingers
Larry Derfner discusses the chronicle of his twin ideological journey he’s made alongside Israel since 1985.
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Not that Conversion
Several organizations in Israel promote and counsel gay Haredi men on how to fight their attraction to men.
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Attempting to Solve the Scholem Enigma
Hebrew University’s Dr. Amir Engel discusses his book about Gershom Scholem, one of Israel’s first public intellectuals.
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American Exceptionalism: Why the Nazis Looked up to US Race Laws
James Q. Whitman of Yale University began asking why Hitler referred to American legal precedents. What he discovered shocked him.
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