Politics & Society

Israel’s grand economic reform that never was

Dr. Ronen Mendelkern discusses the 1962 New Economic Policy, a plan that sought to liberalize the highly interventionist Israeli economy of the time, that ended up in the bin.

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Double-Crossing Double X, or The Unbearable Lightness of Cyber-Sexism and On-Line Assholery

A report in Lady Globes described a large-scale research project carried out by the Director of Research into the Public Sphere at the Berl Katznelson Foundation about violence on the Hebrew internet that turned up some concerning statistics.

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Tenured Traitors, or Professors of Perfidy

Minister of Education Naftali Bennett appointed an ethicist to write rules governing when and how professors talk politics at university.

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Retracing Zionism’s liberal roots

Professor Chaim Gans, a legal and political philosopher at Tel Aviv University, discusses his new book A Political Theory for the Jewish People, which seeks to pave a liberal third way between Zionism and post-Zionism.

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Lousy Leftists Lack Loyalty

A new Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University Monthly Peace Index found that almost one in two Israeli Jews think that leftists are not loyal to Israel.

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Opposite burnt homes, Haifa feasts

How is Haifa recovering after 1,700 residents lost their homes to the recent fire disaster? Residents and leaders get festive, talk about shared society, and eat modern renditions of traditional dishes.

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Back when Harlem was Jewish

Prof. Jeffrey S. Gurock discusses his latest book “The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline and Revival of a Jewish Community” with host Gilad Halpern and new co-host Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin.

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Aging Alone

A report prepared by the Government Research Institute unveiled that 32% of elderly people aged 65-74 in Israel report frequent or occasional feelings of loneliness.

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Righteous Jews

Members of Knesset and the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum are scuffling as to whether “Righteous Jews” should be lionized alongside “Righteous Gentiles.”

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