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The beginning of the end of the Rabbinate

Blatant rebellion against Israel’s Chief Rabbinate broke out this year after a group of rabbis established an alternative conversion court.

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Teaching kids the Classics: Gates, Jobs & Zuckerberg

New Minister of Education Naftali Bennett is trying to convince high-schoolers to take high level math, which will give them primo salaries.

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Opposing Netanyahu, this time with feeling

Israel’s youngest MK, Stav Shaffir, has called her party’s failure to challenge the ruling coalition “a first-rate leadership failure.”

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This land is your land, this land is my land

A new bill would grant traditional agricultural settlements ownership over 90% of their lands, with the other 10% going to nearby development towns.

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A new (leftist) savior to rise from these streets

There’s a buzz in the sidewalk cafes of greater Tel Aviv this week, as we saw politic’s future and its name is General Gabi Ashkenazi.

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Peace by the numbers

A new poll commissioned by the energetic, leftist think-tank Molad, suggests a new strategy for ending the right’s grip on power.

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The Way Home (Road Trip!)

Social protest leader Daphni Leef and singer-songwriter Yael Deckelbaum are planning a politically-motivated, crowd-funded road-trip across Israel.

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The wages of politicization

The newly more-politicized “Judicial Appointment Committee” met this week, and Likud MK Nurit Koren caused a stir with her appointment suggestion.

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