Politics & Society

An officer and a chauvinist

The new Chief Rabbi of the IDF and a rabbi who runs an army preparatory school own up to some Neanderthal opinions about women and LGBTQ folks.

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Who killed social justice?

Did the 2011 “social protests” – which began five years ago this week – leave any real mark on the country?

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Yom Kippur War: Anatomy of a (not so) missed opportunity

Could Israel have avoided the devastating Yom Kippur War by accommodating to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s peace overtures?

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Your kid’s childhood, sponsored by Proctor & Gamble

Proctor & Gamble built air-conditioned bathrooms for girls in Israeli summer camps, with flat screens playing loops of tampon ads.

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Education Reparation?

A government committee pitches a plan to do away with discrimination against Sephardi/Mizrahi Jewish heritage in Israel’s education system.

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Into Africa

Discussing the strategy behind Prime Minister Netanyahu’s recent visit to Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and Ethiopia.

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Post-anti-Zionism: US Trotskyites and the Jewish state

The changing attitudes of (predominantly Jewish) American Marxists towards Zionism during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath.

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