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University Diversity Perversity?

More ultra-Orthodox students could mean gender segregation and restrictions on female faculty. What should university inclusion and diversity cost?

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MK = Meager Kapabilities?

The Israel Democracy Institute asked parliamentary assistants how effectively members of Knesset do their jobs.

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That War

The 1967 War, or Six-Day War to Israelis, began and ended this week fifty years ago. How should we regard it?

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If I Don’t Press Thee, O’ Jerusalem, or The Dress!

Miri Regev made headlines and launched a thousand memes at the Cannes Film Festival by wearing a dress bearing a 360 degree view of Jerusalem.

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Road Trip!

Zionist Union leaders Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni embarked on a trip across the Green Line to “connect with grassroots voters” in the settlement blocs.

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Donald Does the Holy Land!

He came, he saw, he davened. We discuss President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel and how his vision for peace stacks up.

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Not that Conversion

Several organizations in Israel promote and counsel gay Haredi men on how to fight their attraction to men.

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The Lasting Legacy of the Likud

Forty years ago this week, Menachem Begin and the Likud first won control of Israel’s government. We ask, what is the lasting legacy of the Likud?

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