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Fear, loathing and Ha’aretz
Why stalwart, liberal Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz receives constant, vicious criticism from right and left.
Read MoreOrdination is the new B.A.
Should advanced Yeshiva study be counted equal to a university degree when applying for a government job?
Read MoreSo sorry for gassing grandma!
Should Israel continue to buy gas masks from the same German company that made gas masks for the SS soldiers manning the crematoria at Auschwitz?
Read MoreOn the matter of Black Lives Matter
The new Movement for Black Lives platform describes Israel as a perpetrator of “genocide” against Palestinians.
Read MoreLapdogs of democracy
We discuss the uncertain future of the new Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation, and the uncertain future of freedom of the press in Israel.
Read MoreBody-politic dysmorphia
Do Israelis have a problem with scale? Do we think we’re a whole lot bigger and more important than we really are?
Read MoreRitual hypocrites
American passport-holding Knesset Members recently voted for a bill outlawing use of state ritual baths (mikvehs) by non-Orthodox converts.
Read MoreIDF to Knesset: Shut up already!
“We shall keep the rabbis in their synagogues and the generals in their barracks,” Herzl wrote in 1896.
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Too many Israelis?
A discussion of Alon Tal’s important, new book “The Land is Full.”
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