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Women of Influence

What does the Forbes list of the fifty most influential Israeli women say about the state of gender, sex, and sexism in 2017?

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Psychiatric Chic

Two initiatives aim to de-stigmatize mental illness, but probably say more about our anxieties about it than about our open-mindedness towards it.

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Yair in the Middle

Prime Minister candidate Yair Lapid argues that centrism is the new black with a middle-of-the-road, moderation-in-all-things political manifesto.

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Water Bottles Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink

Drinking fountains have disappeared from Israel’s cities. Are the gears of capitalism being greased with the blood of the workers?

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Netanyahu’s Trump Card

Benjamin Netanyahu has borrowed the war against “Fake News.” Are Israelis buying the idea of a media conspiracy?

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The Queer Thing about Israel’s LGBTQ

What is it about the struggle for LGBTQ rights that especially inspires so much support and sympathy in Israel?

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Moving Up?

New research finds that the path for the poor into the upper-middle class is twisty and perverse.

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Sacred Sites, Fights, and Plights

Frightful tensions are mounting over the Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif: are we teetering at the edge of religious war?

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BDS? There’s an App for That Now!

Facebook meets Tinder meets Pokemon Go meets Spy vs. Spy meets Hasbara: it’s a new government funding app meant to undo BDS.

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