Politics & Society

Two Jewish communities separated by a common affinity for Israel

Daniel Goldman, the chairman of Israeli civil society organization Gesher, offers a comparative view on the changing patterns of affinity for Israel among American and British Jews.

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Cities of Sanctity, Cities of Sin

In a recent speech, President Reuven Rivlin suggested that each city, town, or neighborhood decide for themselves how much attention to pay to religion.

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Golden Bibi’s short reign

A golden statue of PM Netanyahu displayed for Tel Aviv’s public illuminates the so-called war between Netanyahu’s government and the world of artistic and political expression.

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The faith equation: Are secularism and scientific progress inextricably intertwined?

Professor of philosophy and outgoing director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Gabriel Motzkin discusses the link between scientific and religious production.

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Our Identity Crisis

A widely discussed NYT Op-Ed argues that Democratic America lost the 2016 election because it fights for the equality of marginalized identity groups under the overarching goal of diversity, but never offered a unified vision for the country.

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Sunshine state: The case for renewable energy in Israel

Tel Aviv Professor and University chair of the School of Social and Policy Studies Itai Sened discusses obstacles to Israeli leadership in the field of renewable energy.

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Israel is Burning

Israeli politicians responded erratically to the 630 fires that burned throughout Israel last week.

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Esperanto: Undoing the curse of Babel

Princeton University Professor of English Ester Schor discusses the dream of universal language and Esperanto, one of the most ambitious social experiments of modern history.

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Post-Mortem & Pre-Natal

Parents of Omri Shahar, a captain in the Israeli Navy who was killed in 2012, just gained the right to create a child from their son’s posthumously-retrieved sperm via a surrogate and raise the child themselves.

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