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We Got the Power

Israel reduced the electricity to Gaza to weaken Hamas, leaving hospitals unsure if can keep their ventilators going. Can this possibly be justified?

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A Cabinet of Experts

There is a proposal to install “experts” instead of politicians as key cabinet ministers. Will this make all the difference?

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Uppity Americans?

Some Israeli Leftists think that American Jewish peace activists may be getting too big for their britches by organizing political action in Israel.

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Primum non nocere?

Medical experiments were performed on Yemeni Jewish children in the early 1950s. What does this tell us about ourselves and what should we do now?

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Babies for LGBTQ Folk? Nyet!

Was Israel was wrong to acquiesce to Russia’s diktat that babies adopted from there not got to LGBTQ folks?

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Will Politics be on the Midterm?

The Minister of Education is advancing a “Code of Ethics” for college and university teachers, but it is being decried as an attack on democracy.

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Is the Man Israel Needs a Moroccan, Ultra-Orthodox Woman?

Dina Dayan, an ultra-Orthodox woman from the Negev Desert, is the only female candidate to head the Labor Party. Is she the future of the Israeli Left?

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Waiting for Gadot

Is there widespread fascination with Wonder Woman Gal Gadot’s IDF past and Israeli identity, reflecting some strange and unnerving psycho-sexual fetishization?

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Anthologizing the Occupation?

A new anthology of essays about the occupation was published by several brilliant writers. What results might this politics-by-literature approach produce?

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Climate Change and the Jewish Question: We’ll Always Have Paris?

Is climate change a danger to Israel’s very existence? Does America’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord a blow to Israel’s security?

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