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In Flames

We just witnessed the rampage on Huwara that many here are calling a pogrom. A pogrom in 2023?

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Barak and a Hard Place

Why is former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, the most revered and reviled man in Israel?

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Uncivil Disobedience?

Strikes, blocking roads, doxing, boycotts, intimidating demonstrations right outside the doors of legislators and ministers – Where’s the line that divides legitimate protest from the other kind?

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Presidential Importunity

President Herzog addressed the nation, looking like he’d just seen a ghost. Many say it was the most important speech of Herzog’s life, but was it the speech we need to hear and will it do a damn thing?

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SS, Mein Kind

It seems like Nazis are so much on the minds of so many who are fighting Netanyahu’s judicial reforms. Are we a Godwin-forsaken country?

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The Invisible Hand that Rocks the Cradle

Newly proposed reform of the schools would give principals the power to fire bad teachers and give extra pay to the good ones, bringing free-market principles to grade-school principals. Do we really need another major reform right now?

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Keeping the Faith

We’re seeing a sudden rise of a (very small) religious left. Is religious-left an oxymoron?

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When Cannons Roar

There were 32 attacks on Israeli Jews – some deadly – in January. How does the violence affect the protests over Netanyahu’s reforms that have roiled the country?

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U & Us

University students hold every imaginable political belief. So is it right for university administrators and faculty to encourage their students to protest the new government?

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