In demonstrations demanding democracy, why does one hear so few Palestinian voices?

President Herzog addressed the nation, looking like he’d just seen a ghost. Many say it was the most important speech of Herzog’s life, but was it the speech we need to hear and will it do a damn thing?

It seems like Nazis are so much on the minds of so many who are fighting Netanyahu’s judicial reforms. Are we a Godwin-forsaken country?

Newly proposed reform of the schools would give principals the power to fire bad teachers and give extra pay to the good ones, bringing free-market principles to grade-school principals. Do we really need another major reform right now?

We’re seeing a sudden rise of a (very small) religious left. Is religious-left an oxymoron?

There were 32 attacks on Israeli Jews – some deadly – in January. How does the violence affect the protests over Netanyahu’s reforms that have roiled the country?

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?

Fifteen 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?

National 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

Journalist, 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!