Israel First!
Three leading industrialists say the way to make Israel great again is to put “Israel First,” and flip the bird to economic globalism. Are they right?
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Not THAT Jewish Agency
Is the most important unseen force in Israeli politics the great divide between those who think that Israelis have it in our power to bring peace, and those fatalists who think, in the end, it just ain’t up to us?
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What About Natalie?
How does Natalie Portman’s decision not to take The Genesis Prize, after having earlier agreed to take it, meet us, and how does it affect us, personally? Oh, Natalie!
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Ben Gurion and The Matrix
Should Israel’s old Labor elite be lionized nostalgically or instead consigned to the dustbin of history?
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Pfeffer’s Netanyahu, Netanyahu’s Israel
In what ways is today’s Israel a product of Benjamin Netanyahu, and in what ways is Benjamin Netanyahu a product of the Israel in which he grew? And what is the price we all pay for the success he’s had molding the country, with such surprising success, into his own image?
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Self-Portrait
A new exhibit of painting portray Sefardi men as oppressors of Russian immigrants. Is it racist?
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Seventy Short Reasons
For Israel’s 70th, the top 70 reasons we love this crazy place: light of our lives, fire of our loins, our sin, our soul, our home!
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Edifice Complex
Israel’s Housing Minister proposes filling Israel’s skyline with huge stainless steel Stars of David, to offset the many minarets, steeples and spires that dot the horizon today. Why do we care whether ours is bigger than theirs?
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Bring Your Seat to an Upright Position
When a flight attendant asks if you wouldn’t mind swapping seats with an ultra-Orthodox Jew, should you (a) kindly agree in the name of civility or (b) righteously refuse in the name of freedom and equality?
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