Politics & Society

Whose death is it, anyway?

October 29, 2015

As we mark, with sadness, 20 years since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, we discuss the struggle over his legacy.

October 27, 2015

Habtom Zarhum was a 29-year-old Eritrean man who was shot and lynched in Be’er Sheva Central Bus Station, having been mistaken for a terrorist.

October 26, 2015

We ask whether Israeli environmental organizations are crypto-leftists in crummy disguises.

October 25, 2015

Why you should be extra careful before you choose the playlist for your daily commute.

October 24, 2015

We discuss efforts to change Israel’s rape laws that turn the focus of the courts from the victims to the perpetrators.

October 23, 2015

How is the increasing phenomenon of gay couples starting families affecting preconceptions about family and continuity in Israel?

October 22, 2015

We discuss competing narratives on the left for explaining the “knifey, stabby” times we’re living in.

October 17, 2015

Dr. Ron Schleifer talks about an invisible but effective element of warfare in the Middle East conflict and beyond.

October 17, 2015

These may not be the worst of times, but never have times been bad in just this way.

October 16, 2015 00:26:50

Dr. Cecile Kuznitz retraces the history of the 90-year-old Yiddish Scientific Institute from Interwar Poland to Postwar America.