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Should Israel Count World Jewry?

Should Israel Count World Jewry?

The Jews of the world, or at least a significant portion of them, will oppose Israel counting and summarizing their numbers.
15/02/2022
Erdan is fit to continue representing the Israeli government at the UN

Erdan is fit to continue representing the Israeli government at the UN

When it comes to the most significant policy issue—the conflict with the Palestinians—the Bennett-Lapid government is completely paralyzed.
15/02/2022
Israel as Myth: Challenges and Opportunities

Israel as Myth: Challenges and Opportunities

The liberal Jewish Diaspora establishment should be open to communication, dialogue, and partnership with various religious and populist groups.
15/02/2022
Hebrews

Hebrews

How do Jews in Israel respond when asked what term fits them better “Jewish,” or “Israeli?” Some say “Israeli,” others “Jewish,” while many refuse to give an answer. Only a small number of “Jewish” respondents feel that they aren’t at all “Israeli,” while few “Israelis” entirely lack a sense of being “Jewish.” Even those who avoid answering simply have trouble…
07/02/2022
Reparations, Restitution and the Price of Forgetting

Reparations, Restitution and the Price of Forgetting

There was nothing inevitable about the Holocaust. It is history’s most horrific example of what happens when people and governments are indifferent in the face of evil.
27/01/2022
The Haredi Leadership: Crime and its Punishment

The Haredi Leadership: Crime and its Punishment

The ultra-Orthodox self-segregate from Israeli society, but the Walder affair is revealing major cracks in the ‘wall of holiness.’ A day of reckoning is coming
23/01/2022
High Noon: The Rabbi versus the Colonel

High Noon: The Rabbi versus the Colonel

Kahana has a law to promote Israel’s law of conversion. The short recap of what the new law intends to do: eliminate the monopoly of the rabbinate over conversions and let city rabbis perform official conversions.
17/01/2022
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
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