The United States of Israel?
Allison, Don, and Noah discuss a proposal to slice and dice Israel into small ethnically and ideologically defined localities.
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ILENE IN: On coinciding without colliding
Jewish and Muslim holidays can coincide without colliding. Ilene talks about the clashes that didn’t happen, despite journalists’ predictions.
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Fighting for Israel’s freedom
CEO Mickey Gitzin of Israel Hofsheet, or Be Free Israel, says it’s time to change the ultra-Orthodox religious establishment’s control over many issues in the Jewish state.
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Seeing black at 30,000 feet
We discuss the now-infamous El Al flight that took off 20 minutes late because an ultra-Orthodox man was negotiating not to have to sit next to a woman.
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How to judge the judges
The Israel Bar Association recently decided to reinstitute the annual rating of judges by lawyers. Does this serve to remind judges that they’re human?
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A spoonful of politics helps the medicine go down?
Lancet editor Richard Horton visited Israel this week to apologize for his publication’s controversial ‘An Open Letter for the People of Gaza.’
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ILENE IN: On Turkish tassology
Turkey has been reluctant to join the fight against the Islamic State, but is now coming round.
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How Supreme a Court?
Allison, Don, and Noah ask whether the Israeli Supreme Court overreaches, or whether judicial activism should be encouraged.
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The cry of the silenced
Allison, Don, and Noah discuss journalist Mairav Zonszein’s New York Times op-ed, ‘How Israel Silences Dissent.’
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The great media parallax
The coverage of Operation Protective Edge this summer looked very different on Israeli TV screens compared to American or European ones.
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