Jerusalem bans a right-wing billboard for incitement, while the same billboard is plastered all over Tel Aviv. Which should we prefer: Free expression, Tel Aviv style, or decency in the public square, Jerusalem style?
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What sense can we make of sixty-one people shot to death at the Gaza border: What should we think? What should we do?
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What do we think about ‘tiyul’ culture, and does it partake of, and advance, a politics that is not our own? What is to be done with the ‘tiyul’?
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Is the “Rabbinic Courts Bill (Marriage and Divorce)” as risible as its critics make it seem? After all, it is meant to ameliorate the terrible suffering of thousands of women. If it can do that, doesn’t it perhaps justify a little expansion of Israeli Rabbinic authority?
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What thoughts, fears, and hopes stem from Trump’s decision to leave the Iran nuclear deal and the escalation in Northern Israel in those of us who are watching with worry as we open and prepare bomb-shelters up north?
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The Jerusalem Museum of Natural History cover up exhibits on evolution when ultra-Orthodox kids come to visit: Respectful pluralism or despicable cravenness?
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Three leading industrialists say the way to make Israel great again is to put “Israel First,” and flip the bird to economic globalism. Are they right?
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Is the most important unseen force in Israeli politics the great divide between those who think that Israelis have it in our power to bring peace, and those fatalists who think, in the end, it just ain’t up to us?
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How does Natalie Portman’s decision not to take The Genesis Prize, after having earlier agreed to take it, meet us, and how does it affect us, personally? Oh, Natalie!
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Should Israel’s old Labor elite be lionized nostalgically or instead consigned to the dustbin of history?
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