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The High Cost of God

Israelis pay a bit less than 9 billion shekels a year for their religion. Is that price for God too steep?

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Palestinians and Peace in the Age of Trump

Palestinian President Abbas comes home from the White House with a spring in his step, while Hamas announces they are willing to live in pre-1967 borders.

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IDF = In a Dither about Feminism?

A front page headline this week in a conservative Israeli newspaper screamed, ‘IDF Cancels Workshops for Female Officers on ‘Feminist Thought’.

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Living Together and Apart

The Jewish People Policy Institute conducted a poll which found that almost two-thirds of Israeli Jews do not want Palestinians in their neighborhoods, and nearly vice versa.

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Labor’s Battle Royal

The deadline to register as a candidate to head the Labor Party into the next elections recently passed, leaving a whopping nine faces in the running.

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“And To the Glory of the State of Israel!”

The annual torch lighting ceremony on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem is the oldest formal Independence Day tradition, dating back to the very first Mt. Herzl ceremony in 1950.

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69 Years

What would two young immigrants to Israel in 1948, a young mother from Morocco and a Czech woman just liberated from a DP camp, think of the state today?

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Sorrow, Loss & Politics

This past week, Israelis watched in horror as MKs and bereaved families descended into name-calling over the government’s conduct during the 2014 Gaza war.

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Not Our Holocaust Day

Israelis stand aghast each year at the sight of Ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel ignoring, and sometimes mocking Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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Fighting the Good Fight Against the Bad Global Right

MK Dov Khenin’s answer to the rise of the global right is to create a grand coalition of all the liberals, socialists and communists who find the shift horrifying.

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