Post-Mortem & Pre-Natal
Parents of Omri Shahar, a captain in the Israeli Navy who was killed in 2012, just gained the right to create a child from their son’s posthumously-retrieved sperm via a surrogate and raise the child themselves.
Read MoreParents of Omri Shahar, a captain in the Israeli Navy who was killed in 2012, just gained the right to create a child from their son’s posthumously-retrieved sperm via a surrogate and raise the child themselves.
Read MoreThe Chief Sephardi Rabbi of Jerusalem R. Shlomo Amar lashed out this week in an interview against LGBTQ folks and Reform Jews, calling homosexuality a cult of abomination.
Read MoreThe chorus of voices protesting possible appointments of bigots, racists, and antisemites, most notably Steve Bannon, violate Godwin’s Law daily.
Read MoreA recent article in Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth described the unique mores of advertising to the very pious.
Read MoreThe Israeli Knesset passed a new law regulating and limiting the roles of PAC-style NGOs in Israeli elections.
Read MoreThe National Theater Company Ha-Bima performed a play in Kiryat Arba, the settlement capital in Hebron’s outskirts, for the first time this week.
Read MorePM Netanyahu dedicated 680 words in response to journalist Ilana Dayan’s story about his office, making numerous accusations against Dayan and failing to address the issues raised in the piece.
Read MoreThe planning and stage rhetoric of last week’s Rabin Memorial Demonstration were more political than years past.
Read MoreThe world, Israel included, reels after Donald J. Trump won the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday.
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Israel is Burning
Israeli politicians responded erratically to the 630 fires that burned throughout Israel last week.
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