Politics & Society

God is a Feminist Issue!

Retired Paratrouper Colonel and political analyst Shaul Arieli recently wrote an essay called, “Israel’s Settlement Movement Isn’t Growing the Way you Thought it Was.”

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You Gotta Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive, E-Lim-inate the Negative!

Former Minister of Education Shai Piron and IDF Chiefs of Staff Benny Gantz and Gabi Ashkenazi announced that they are forming a new “cultural values organization.”

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Right and Wrong

A debate has arisen about Israel’s diplomatic ties with the rising far right nationalist parties in Europe.

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Death of a Statesman: Yitzhak Rabin and the End of an Israeli Era

Yitzhak Rabin’s former ambassador to the US Professor Itamar Rabinovich discusses his new biography of the prime minister.

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Picturing a Jewish State

Israeli photographer David Rubinger died at 92 last week, known best for his photograph of paratroopers gazing at the newly captured Wailing Wall.

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The Shunning!

Israel’s High Court of Justice sanctioned “shunning” this week, a kind of excommunication of men who refuse to grant their wives divorces, by a 5-2 vote.

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Zionism as a Vocation: Ahad Ha’am and the Legacy of Cultural Zionism

Dr. Brian Klug of University of Oxford analyzes 20th-century Zionist theorist Ahad Ha’am’s relevance to today’s Israel.

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Lifta, Jerusalem’s open wound

Israel’s Land Authority may replace historic Palestinian village remains with a neighborhood of luxury villas, and the Jewish residents of Lifta are being evicted.

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