Voices from the rally for Elor Azaria
Sgt. Azaria has been indicted for manslaughter for firing a deadly shot at a wounded Palestinian in Hebron last month.
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Four Sons for a New Generation
An updated version of the old story in the Midrash about the four sons – one wise, one evil, one simple, and one who does not know how to ask.
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Between Tel Aviv and Moscow: Zionism, Communism & disillusionment
Dr. Nir Arielli, a lecturer in history and politics at Leeds University, discusses the tumultuous life of his great aunt, Leah Trachtman-Palchan.
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Yids online!
A new survey of the habits of Israeli Modern Orthodox (or “National Religious”) Jews finds that they use the internet more than everyone else.
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School’s out, completely
The Tel Aviv Municipality plans to turn a park in a troubled southern neighborhood of the city into a school for refugee kids.
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Postwar justice, Soviet style
A discussion of the trials of Nazi criminals and collaborators in the Soviet Union during and in the immediate aftermath of WWII.
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What makes Bibi tick?
A new essay challenges the leftist article-of-faith that PM Netanyahu tacks back and forth out of opportunism and naked ambition.
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The decline and fall of the kibbutz: An appreciation
An analysis of the crisis that has all but decimated the once illustrious centrepiece of Israel and Zionism and some first thoughts about its potential rejuvenation.
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This is Your Brain on Shoah!
One high school’s decision to quit making trips to concentration camps in Poland, because of the lousy lessons kids get from them.
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In Philip Roth’s shadow: Sayed Kashua’s ‘authorial network’
An analysis of the influence of the Jewish-American novelist on the much younger Israeli-Arab author.
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