Politics & Society

Ritual hypocrites

August 6, 2016

American passport-holding Knesset Members recently voted for a bill outlawing use of state ritual baths (mikvehs) by non-Orthodox converts.

August 5, 2016

Discussing the distinctive characteristics of one of the English speaking world’s largest Jewish communities, before and after their mass aliya.

August 4, 2016

“We shall keep the rabbis in their synagogues and the generals in their barracks,” Herzl wrote in 1896.

August 1, 2016

The contribution of satirical plays in the British Mandate period to the creation of a homegrown Israeli culture.

July 31, 2016

We discuss issues raised by the ongoing manslaughter case of IDF soldier Elor Azaria.

July 30, 2016

A slew of prominent and thoughtful folks, including former leftist Knesset members, have said “goodbye to all that” and left the Left.

July 29, 2016

The evolution of peacemaking policies among Israel’s political and military circles.

July 28, 2016

We discuss Israel’s new “Impeachment Law,” passed by Knesset members on July 20.

July 25, 2016

How did Jewish Americans view Israel’s treatment of its largest ethnic minority in the 1950s and 60s, when they were subjected to military rule?

July 24, 2016

The president of a Tel Aviv area design college threatened to ban a student painting unless the nude subject’s face was blacked out.