U & Us
University students hold every imaginable political belief. So is it right for university administrators and faculty to encourage their students to protest the new government?
Read MoreFifteen times as many people are turning out for anti-government demonstrations in Tel Aviv as are coming to demonstrations in Jerusalem. But are the small demonstrations in the capital more important than the big demonstrations on the coast?
Read MoreNational Library Database & Reference Librarian Daniel Lipson, has spent years painstakingly locating the tens of thousands of books in the library’s collections that were stolen by Nazis. Just ahead of International Holocaust Day, he tells us why
Read MoreJournalist, scholar, and public intellectual Yossi Klein Halevi published an essay arguing that we’re riven between those who long for a “State of Judaism”, and those who long for a “State of Jews.” How did we get here? Yossi Klein Halevi, who joined us for the discussion, has an answer!
Read MoreThe Supreme Court bars Shas head Aryeh Deri from being a minister, and half the country thinks justice has been done and half the country thinks the results of Novembers democratic elections have been undone
Read MorePeople still call Hayim Nahman Bialik Israel’s “National Poet.” What could that possibly mean in 2023, on the 150th anniversary of Bialik’s birth?
Read MoreThe “Judicial Reform” has so many people so very worried. Is it needed reform or coup d’état?
Read MoreIf two people fighting who owes who what, and they both want to be tried by a rabbi instead of a judge, is that cool?
Read MoreWhen historians look back, will they say the elections of 2022 were when Israel changed forever (and not necessarily for the better)?
Read MoreThere’s a new proposed “Basic Law: Torah Study” that gives learning Talmud in a Yeshiva the same weight and status as commanding a tank in the IDF. Is it finally time to make the Torah nice and legal?
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