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Israel’s dead, long live the Jewish State!

Is Israel, as 91-year-old peace activist and moral compass Uri Avnery asserts, shifting from a “Hebrew” state to a “Jewish” state?

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Jewing up the diaspora real nice

The Ministry of Diaspora affairs has announced a program to fix “the weakening of the Jewish foundations of the family unit” among diaspora Jews.

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A decade out of Gaza

On the tenth anniversary of Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the Jewish settlements in Gaza, we discuss the lasting legacy of the withdrawal.

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The wages of compassion

Six Israelis have been killed by men released as part of the deal that brought Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit back to his family three years ago.

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The new face of Israel’s opposition?

MK and Yesh Atid party head Yair Lapid is attempting to parlay PM Netanyahu’s failure to prevent the Iran deal into his own political asset.

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An ode to hypocrisy

Award-winning Mizrahi poet Roy Hasan’s recent poem calls out Ashkenazim for hypocrisy, hegemony, and all-around ass-hole-itude.

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