Politics & Society

The origins of Jewish charity

July 11, 2015

Dr. Yael Wilfand recently had her book “Poverty, Charity and the Image of the Poor in Rabbinic Texts from the Land of Israel” published.

July 11, 2015

More and more of Israel’s best young musicians are opting to forsake Hebrew in favor of the more commercial English.

July 10, 2015

Jonathan Preminger has just completed his PhD in labor struggles and representation in post-corporatist Israel.

July 10, 2015

As we mark the one year anniversary of last summer’s tragic Gaza war, hundreds of women launch a symbolic hunger strike.

July 9, 2015

Israelis are protesting a deal that gives the rights to the country’s natural gas windfall to American and Israeli corporate consortia.

July 4, 2015

Dr. Michal Segal Arnold wrote her PhD thesis about the American Indian Movement, a Native American pressure group.

July 4, 2015

Jonathan Rauch claims that all America’s efforts to do away with smoke-filled rooms are actually damaging its politics.

July 3, 2015

While a glance at the current Israeli government might refute any notion that Jews are “smarter” than other groups, is there something in it?

July 3, 2015

The children of a generation of right-wingers who were cruelly excluded from the institutions of the state when it was finally established.

July 2, 2015

The Israel “Jewish Heritage Network” (otherwise known as Channel 20) is morphing into a right-wing news network before our very eyes.