Politics & Society

The Unsettling Cost of Unsettling

The Israeli government agreed to allocate 130 million NIS ($33.75 million) to the resettlement of the Amona families.

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The glass mechitza: Fighting for women’s rights, from the courthouse to shul

Ariela Migdal, a women’s rights lawyer formerly with the American Civil Liberties Union, analyzes the status of women in the United States and within the Jewish community.

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We Dreamed We were Farmers

The Israeli government recently decided to support homegrown agriculture with taxpayer shekels, though studies point to the policy as economically foolish.

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The last fight let us face: Israeli communist commemoration of Spain’s civil war

Dr. Amir Locker-Biletzky, a post-doctoral fellow at Concordia University’s Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, discusses how the Israeli Communist Party looked back on the participation of its members in the iconic battle against Fascism.

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And as a Parting Gift: UN Security Council Resolution 2334

An international uproar has followed UNSC Resolution 2334’s passage, which dubbed Israeli settlements a flagrant violation of international law.

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Indecision makers: How Israel forces asylum seekers into legal limbo

Dr. Ruvi Ziegler of the University of Reading discusses Israels half-hearted treatment of African asylum seekers over the last decade, and the mark they have left on Israel’s migration law.

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Hem-Line Politics

Knesset guards denied entrance to parliamentary aides whose dressed were judged too short, sparking protest.

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You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your ambassador!

David Friedman is President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel supports the occupation, opposes a two-state solution, and has called leftists “worse than Kapos.”

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Lies, damned lies and scholarship

Professor Martin Kramer of Shalem College discusses his new collection of essays seeking to debunk myths and biases within scholarship on Israel and the Middle East.

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