Politics & Society

Jewish law in the Jewish state: Divorced from reality

A case study in the Rabbinate’s monopoly on granting divorces in Israel, and one woman’s fight to break it.

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Anti-clockwise: Time and modernity in the late Ottoman Empire

Analyzing the tension between tradition and modernity in 19th century Turkey through the introduction of standardized time.

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Lucre, filthy & clean

We discuss the “NGO Transparency Bill.” Is money donated by foreign governments any different from money donated by foreign individuals?

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Street justice?

Israelis are being urged to boycott Ikea because the Swedish foreign minister criticized Israel’s killing-on-the-spot of terrorist attackers.

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Chaim Weizmann: A statesman, a scientist

Weizmann was Israel’s first president and leader of the World Zionist Organization in the pre-state years, and he maintained an active career as a chemist.

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