Jaffa, the crux of co-existence?
Professor Daniel Monterescu, a visiting professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion in Haifa, discusses his recently published ethnographic study of Jaffa.
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From Tots to Patriots
Next month, there will be an appreciation ceremony and military parade in which Israeli children will be forced to declaim from memory words of gratitude to security forces, including the Border Guards.
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Peace in Just Ten Easy Steps!
Yitzhak Herzog, head of the Labor Party, the Zionist Union and the Opposition, issued a new “10-point Plan for Israeli-Palestinian Peace” this week.
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Adieu, Jews: France and North Africa Under the Nazi Occupation
Dr. Daniel Lee of the University of Sheffield discusses the unusual case of Jews in metropolitan France and its North African colonies after the 1940 defeat by Nazi Germany.
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Courting Change
This week, this committee selected four new Supreme Court Justices (or 26 and two thirds percent of the court), to replace four judges facing mandatory retirement during the course of 2017.
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Kafka in the West Bank: The bureaucracy of the occupation
Dr. Yael Berda of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, discusses Israeli surveillance of the Palestinian population in the West Bank.
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Wind-Down Nation?
The annual “State of the Sciences in Israel” report found that Israeli science is on the downswing.
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The Least Anti-Semitic Person You’ve Ever Seen & the Jewish Question
Netanyahu and Trump perform a concerning political dance around the recent spike in antisemitic incidents in the US.
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Armenia’s 30-Year Genocide
Professor Benny Morris, one of the foremost historians of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has ventured into a new territory.
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Shriveling Settlements?
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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