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To Repair the Whole, We Must Understand its Parts

To Repair the Whole, We Must Understand its Parts

On January 16, Novak Djokovic, the top-seed men’s Tennis player in the world, was deported from Australia after a legal saga that ultimately resulted in the cancelation of his visa on the basis of “health and good order” on the eve of the Australian Open. Although Djokovic is not vaccinated against Covid-19, he has not actively promoted anti-vax disinformation. A…
17/01/2022
Walter Mondale: A Pragmatist With a Lesson for Progressives

Walter Mondale: A Pragmatist With a Lesson for Progressives

Mondale movingly evoked the 1938 Evian Conference, where the world refused to liberalize immigration quotas for Jewish refugees, saying the “world will not forget us if we fail” in saving people fleeing South Asia by boat.
28/12/2021
AIPAC’s Gamble

AIPAC’s Gamble

A few days ago, the Israel lobby in the United States, AIPAC, announced that it would no longer confine itself to its usual political activity in Washington, but would support specific candidates for elected office, Republicans and Democrats, who support Israel – even in the upcoming primary season. In so doing, AIPAC is changing its policy of avoiding direct involvement…
28/12/2021
Local private rabbinic courts undermine the reason they should exist

Local private rabbinic courts undermine the reason they should exist

A private court that forced is on litigants by the ultra-Orthodox community that sponsors it can’t properly serve those who would otherwise seek its rulings
27/12/2021
Next PA head will do more for Palestinians than Abbas ever did

Next PA head will do more for Palestinians than Abbas ever did

Without an Israeli peace initiative aimed at dividing the land into two states, we are abandoning Israel’s future to a Palestinian decision.
27/12/2021
Political Extremism and the Jews

Political Extremism and the Jews

There is a natural tendency, when discussing political extremism and polarization, to assume that the extreme Right and the extreme Left are mirror images of one another. In so doing, one appears evenhanded, even broadminded, able to accept that one’s own side’s extremists are as bad as those of the other side.
27/12/2021
By: Dr. Shlomo Fischer
How the Abraham Accords Can Also Help Restore Israel–American Jewry Relations

How the Abraham Accords Can Also Help Restore Israel–American Jewry Relations

The Abraham Accords can bring together not just the children of Isaac and Ishmael but also the descendants of Isaac with one another.
27/12/2021
So how, in fact, do Haredi women behave?

So how, in fact, do Haredi women behave?

Ultra-Orthodox feminists aren’t just changing their own communities, they are posing a wider challenge: Can new and different models be tolerated in the Israeli secular space?
05/12/2021
Europe needs to allow Jews to practice shechita

Europe needs to allow Jews to practice shechita

Eight European countries have banned the practice of shechita.
15/11/2021
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