A 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?
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A 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?
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Should Israel’s tour guides be licensed professionals, like gynecologists, or unregulated enthusiasts, like aromatherapists?
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Anyone 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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Two thousand and three hundred: That’s how many targeted killing operations Israel has carried out over the years. Israeli spymasters say that targeted assassinations save lives. But can we live with them?
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The most popular Jewish reality TV show since the Torah was given at Sinai matches singles and introduces them to each other under the Chuppah on their wedding day! Why is it such a hit?
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Should David Grossman turn down the prestigious Israel Prize? Should one accept a State Prize after they’ve ceased to prize the State (or, at least, its leaders)?
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In choosing a new leader, will Meretz change the direction, and the fate, of Israel’s left?
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A store is sued for refusing to deliver tiles and toilets to Israeli settlers on an Israeli settlement. Should companies be allowed to discriminate against folks who live over the “Green Line”?
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