Animal Politics
Why does the struggle for animal rights and animal liberation resonate so strongly with so many Israelis?
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The Likud is Not a Body that Needs Democracy?
The Young Turk “New Likudniks” are trying to take over the party and move it leftward: is that o.k.?
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Fast Forverts: Media and Culture in the US Jewish Labor Movement
Dr. Brian Dolber discusses his book, “Media and Culture in the US Jewish Labor Movement: Sweating for Democracy in the Interwar Period.”
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Keeping up with the Netanyahus (or, Reality Bites)
Should the Prime Minister pay a political price for the zany reality-TV foibles of his family?
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Hebrew: The Revival of a Not-So-Dead Language
Lewis Glinert discusses his new book, “The Story of Hebrew,” a detailed biography of 3,500 years of life, presumed death, and resurrection.
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From Sex Industry to Ex-Industry?
The courts and the Knesset have recently moved to squelch the sex industry: is this blessed feminism or cursed puritanism?
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Paper Trail (or in the Gloam with Yisrael Ha-Yom)
Could the shocking disclosure that PM Netanyahu conversed lots with the editor of Israel’s biggest newspaper before elections possibly be kosher?
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TLV1 Extra: Unconventional Views on Current Events
David Benkof writes from a conservative Republican gay Orthodox Jewish perspective about why he voted for Clinton and moved to Israel as a Trump refugee.
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Nabi Saleh, 1:15 a.m.
What can we learn from a video of IDF soldiers searching a West Bank Palestinian home about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?
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Are You There, Allah? It’s Me, Haroon
Haroon Moghul’s book weaves together stories of personal, political, and religious development, and answers questions about Islam for the perplexed
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