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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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And here come the rabbis!

The rabbis of the Knesset are trying to reverse liberalizing legislation on a whole host of issues from conversion to kashrut.

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Apocalypse soon?

What does the Iran deal mean for Israel? Should we Israelis be out back digging our fallout shelter?

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Too hip for Hebrew?

More and more of Israel’s best young musicians are opting to forsake Hebrew in favor of the more commercial English.

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The peace movement stirs?

As we mark the one year anniversary of last summer’s tragic Gaza war, hundreds of women launch a symbolic hunger strike.

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Gas-holes!

Israelis are protesting a deal that gives the rights to the country’s natural gas windfall to American and Israeli corporate consortia.

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Princes of resentment

The children of a generation of right-wingers who were cruelly excluded from the institutions of the state when it was finally established.

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Fox News for the Jews

The Israel “Jewish Heritage Network” (otherwise known as Channel 20) is morphing into a right-wing news network before our very eyes.

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Is this man the future of the Israeli left?

Ron Huldai just told the press that he may challenge MK and opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog to become the new leader of the Labor party.

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