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!

The 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

People still call Hayim Nahman Bialik Israel’s “National Poet.” What could that possibly mean in 2023, on the 150th anniversary of Bialik’s birth?

The “Judicial Reform” has so many people so very worried. Is it needed reform or coup d’état?

If two people fighting who owes who what, and they both want to be tried by a rabbi instead of a judge, is that cool?

When historians look back, will they say the elections of 2022 were when Israel changed forever (and not necessarily for the better)?

There’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?

What good are the new “coalition agreements” Benjamin Netanyahu just signed, if the guy is already saying he ain’t gonna honor at least some of them?

Has the time come for a new left – of, by and for Jews & Palestinians together – that leaves Zionism checked at the door?

What’s Sally think?