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Identity and Education
Identity and Education
The Perfect Storm: Why this Rosh Hashanah May Start Israel’s Most Challenging Year Yet
A convergence of trends and events – some global, some local – threatens to turn the Jewish New Year into a “perfect storm” for Israel, from elections and war to diplomacy and climate change.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Israel cannot prevent another October 7 if Netanyahu keeps rewriting the first one
Israel cannot learn from October 7 if its leaders continue to deflect responsibility and rewrite the failures that made the massacre possible.
Religion and State
Religion and State
When women are asked to disappear
In every case, the same principle is being established: when a man’s beliefs collide with a woman’s presence, the woman is the one expected to move.
Religion and State
Religion and State
Netanyahu’s false promise of ‘study or serve’
The latest Haredi draft slogan gives voters exactly what they want to hear without delivering the soldiers Israel needs.
Identity and Education
Identity and Education
The right to disappear: What Israel can learn from Europe about privacy
Vienna’s search for two missing Israelis highlights the tension between family’s right to know and an adult’s right to privacy.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Finland and the Israel paradox
Countries already confronting immediate security threats may criticize Israeli policy, yet still regard Israel as an unusually valuable security partner.
Identity and Education
Identity and Education
AI will not change the Jews – or will it?
AI may not change what it means to be Jewish. But it could profoundly change the institutions through which Jewish life has been transmitted from one generation to another.
