Politics & Society

The Good (for-what-exactly?) Book

June 12, 2016

In honor of the holiday of Shavuot, we discuss what role the Torah should play, if any, in Israel’s public sphere.

June 11, 2016

There is a controversial push to repeal a 54-year-old law that places children with their mothers in divorce cases.

June 10, 2016

How a critical study of literature can enrich the debate about Israel and Zionism.

June 9, 2016

We discuss the weird-ass peace retreat in Paris, without Israelis or Palestinians, and the Egyptian-Saudi peace initiative.

June 6, 2016

A genealogy of the two most radical examples of Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy: Jerusalem’s Neturei Karta and Brooklyn’s Satmar Hasidim.

June 5, 2016

The Ministry of Housing seems to be moving against municipal affordable housing programs on the grounds that they discriminate.

June 4, 2016

There’s a new trend on the left of using the word “fascist” to describe the direction in which our government is traveling.

June 3, 2016

Tracing the origins of modernity to the Black Death, which instigated a complete overhaul in the way society functioned and perceived itself.

June 2, 2016 00:12:33

Human rights group B’Tselem says it is no longer going to refer complaints about soldiers’ behavior to the IDF’s lawyers.

May 30, 2016

Discussing how universities have adapted to market forces and global capitalism with a mixture of accommodation and resistance.