There seems to be a very fast decline in US-Israel relations, after the Americans abstain on a UN Security Council resolution that Israel expected them to veto. Are Israel and America, like Ross and Rachel, on a break?

The trope of an eternal, genocidal Amalek is everywhere these days. What role does it play in the war and in our politics?

An opposition conference at the Knesset is setting out a new peace plan for our troubled times. Is all we are sayin’, just give peace a chance?

A well-regarded literary journal retracts an essay by an Israeli on account of, well, what exactly? Is it a literary crime to be an Israeli in 2024?

This month’s Atlantic cover story argues that the “Golden Age” for American Jews has come to a close and, with it, maybe the “Golden Age” for America and the “Golden Age” for Jews. Is the US putting the “mean” back into “reversion to the mean”?

Is it time for soul-searching and spiritual reckoning over the death and destruction in Gaza?

For the first time ever, Jerusalem elected a straight-up majority of ultra-Orthodox men to its city council. What’s it all mean?

Few positions have more job security than mayor of a major city in Israel. But why is that?

They say that, in a democracy, even the most humble among us can be elected to public office. Now we know it’s true!

Perhaps now is the moment to extend the draft to the ultra-Orthodox, because a crisis is a terrible thing to waste