Surveilling Rabbis
An activist spends long hours going over videos of rabbinic lectures, getting the sexist and homophobic bits on the nightly news. Is this smart progressive politics, or kind of creepy stalking?
Read MoreAn activist spends long hours going over videos of rabbinic lectures, getting the sexist and homophobic bits on the nightly news. Is this smart progressive politics, or kind of creepy stalking?
Read MoreIsrael’s got a machine-learning AI system for identifying lone terrorists before they act. Should this bit of real-scifi-Minority Report-ism make it easier for us to sleep at night, or cause us to toss-and-turn in Orwellian angst?
Read More$400 million to build a theme park in the desert about Judaism, with a ride that log-flumes you through a hectic week and floats you past the serene and bucolic pleasures of Shabbat? Is Israel finally making Judaism fun?
Read MoreShould Israel’s street names be scrubbed on honorific mentions of Ashkenazi founding fathers and mothers who treated Sefaradim/Mizrahim with condescension and worse?
Read MoreA new site lets rich Israelis offload their unworn couture to the hoi polloi, providing refined clothes to unrefined people. But isn’t this cloying bit of rich-kid entrepreneurship, actually a pretty good thing for the world?
Read MoreA new ultra-Orthodox Wikipedia serves up the world from a “Torah Perspective,” without pics of chicks, and light on evolution. A step towards or away from enlightenment?
Read MoreShould Israel’s tour guides be licensed professionals, like gynecologists, or unregulated enthusiasts, like aromatherapists?
Read MoreAnyone claiming that Poles bear collective responsibility for Jews murdered in Poland during the Holocaust could land in jail for three years, according to a new Polish law. Now a delegation of Polish historians and politicians is in Israel trying to explain why the law is just. What’s a Jewish state to do?
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