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Art or Death

Should the government support the arts like it supports the hospitals and the army, because art is an existential need no less important than health and defense?

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What is Israeli?

Israel’s celebrating our 72nd birthday, and still we’ve gotta ask: What is Israeli?

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Timor Mortis-est?

Is it true what the director of Israel’s Ministry of Health just said, that Israelis have less of a stomach for COVID-19 deaths than folks in other countries, and that that’s a problem?

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The Coalition Proposition: A Road to Perdition?

Is the coalition agreement that PM Netanyahu and Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz just signed the end of democracy as we know it, the salvation of Israel, or maybe, just maybe, something in between?

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Zionormativity (and the Queering of Yiddish)

Is Israel’s militarist, masculinist, xenophobizing reaction to coronavirus in need of a good “queering,” now more than ever?

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Six Physicists, Two Computer Scientists, an Engineer, an Economist and a Psychologist

Coronavirus doesn’t distinguish by sex, religion or profession. But should that be true, too, of the committee tasked with devising our “exit strategy”?

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The Dialectics of Dayenu

Does the Passover Seder song, Dayenu, explain the difference between Israel’s right and left?

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What’s Wrong with Bnei Brak?!?

Why are most Israeli COVID-19 victims Ultra-Orthodox? Are all the others here who are outraged at Haredim justified in their anger?

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