The religiouser we get, the happier we feel?
A Haaretz poll has found that ultra-Orthodox Jews are happier than Orthodox Jews, who are happier than traditional Jews, who are happier than secular Jews.
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Jewish law in the Jewish state: An awkward conversion
Find out why over a million Israelis who moved here as Jews are not Jewish enough to marry in Israel, and what happens when they try to convert.
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Dazed, confused, drunk, and depressed
Israeli leftists spent this year mad, muttering, and morbidly depressed. Never before have so many thought so much was so irredeemably awful.
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Occupation Studies: Theorizing and analyzing a new reality
A new academic discipline is currently being established: ‘Occupation Studies’ – in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The beginning of the end of the Rabbinate
Blatant rebellion against Israel’s Chief Rabbinate broke out this year after a group of rabbis established an alternative conversion court.
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To hell with what folks think about Israel!
Obama? Screw you! Hollande? Up yours! Merkel? Take a hike! We just don’t care what you think about Israel.
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Teaching kids the Classics: Gates, Jobs & Zuckerberg
New Minister of Education Naftali Bennett is trying to convince high-schoolers to take high level math, which will give them primo salaries.
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In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel
A discussion on the six different attempts to establish a Jewish political entity in the 19th and 20th centuries, and why they all failed.
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Opposing Netanyahu, this time with feeling
Israel’s youngest MK, Stav Shaffir, has called her party’s failure to challenge the ruling coalition “a first-rate leadership failure.”
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Gimme that ol’ time irreligion!
A Haaretz poll has found that 70 percent of Israeli Jews believe in God, meaning that lots of ostensibly secular Jews have begun to believe.
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