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What is the Good Book Good For?

As we celebrate Shavuot, a festival marking the giving of the Torah at Sinai, we can’t help but wonder: What are we supposed to do with that book, anyway?

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J’Accuse?, Non, J’Accuse!

As his corruption trial begin, PM Netanyahu’s supporters take to the streets to say their leader is a latter day Dreyfus, persecuted by a cabal of leftist judges and journalists. What should we make of that?

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Golda’s Israel, and Ours

Does a new documentary about Golda Meir, Israel’s 4th Prime Minister, teach us something crucial about the country today?

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Leftism and Other Risk Factors

Why are left-leaning Israelis suffering more from the pandemic than right-leaning Israelis?

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The Vision of No Vision

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister Gantz set out their visions for the future in the first meeting of Israel’s new government, which are narrow and dryly technocratic. But is that really a bad thing in tumultuous times?

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God TV?

An Evangelical cable TV channel cheeses people off when it tries to convince Israeli Jews to accept Jesus in our hearts. But isn’t that the sort of things we want to have in a “marketplace of ideas”?

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Court TV?

When Supreme Court hearings are broadcast on TV, does it humanize the justices, or just make them look small?

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Big Government

Israel’s new government is the largest in history, with 36 ministers. But can we expect big things from it?

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Solidarities

Israelis raise money to support a British woman suing Israeli young men who assaulted her in Cyprus. Why?

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