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A Public Yom Kippur
9/30/2022
Minister Nachman Shai: It is time for a new paradigm in Israeli-Diaspora
9/25/2022
Rosh Hashanah or January 1st?
9/23/2022
Herzl and the First Zionist Congress: Then and now
8/28/2022
High Court Snuffs Out Hope for Tech-Savvy Haredim
8/15/2022
How Much Should Israel Value Jewish Interests Over its Own?
8/11/2022
Abortion Rights Clash Bodes Ill for US Jews and Israel Ties
7/26/2022
Palestinian Weakness is a Curse for Israel, Not a Blessing
7/25/2022
Biden Middle East Trip: Where National Polarization Meets Party Polarization
7/12/2022
A Fight for the Right to Poverty and Ignorance
7/10/2022
US Ponders Agonizing Handshake in Saudi Arabia It Wants to Avoid
7/05/2022
Israel’s Coalition Didn’t Fail. It Set a New Bar
7/05/2022
Israel’s Elections Reawaken U.S. Jews’ Trauma
6/27/2022
The Rise of the French Anti-System Parties: Implications for European Jewry
6/24/2022
Is Evangelical Support for Israel Really Unequivocal?
6/22/2022
Judging the ‘Ethics’ of Israel’s Defense and Foreign Policy
6/19/2022
Israel and the US: Danger just around the corner
6/13/2022
I am not a ‘disease carrier’
6/13/2022
‘Covenant’: Creating a Jewish conversion spectrum
6/11/2022
What drives us, interests or morality?
6/08/2022
Australian Jewish Community Looks to the Future
5/24/2022
Is there basis to Lavrov’s Comments on Hitler, Judaism and Antisemitism?
5/22/2022
Generalizing about All Arabs is as Bad as Antisemitic Generalizations
5/22/2022
MK Yitzhak Pindrus the haredi bulldozer
5/22/2022
The BDS Pound of Flesh
5/19/2022
The Israeli government must cooperate with J Street
5/19/2022
An inclusive Jewish nationalism opens itself to refugees
4/24/2022
An Inclusive Jewish Nationalism Opens Itself to Refugees
4/13/2022
The last of the ‘gedolim’
3/30/2022
Will China repeat America’s mistakes in the Middle East?
3/29/2022
From Generation to Generation, Great Rabbis Come and Go – But the System Remains the Same
3/28/2022
The Advice I Gave Madeleine Albright When She Found Out She Was Jewish
3/28/2022
How the Abraham Accords Can Also Help Restore Israel–American Jewry Relations
3/16/2022
Responding to Amb. Shoval: Judge us based on who we are, not who we were
3/11/2022
The Jewish Agency has a vital mission – but first, it needs a shake-up
3/09/2022
Chief rabbi’s call for Ukrainian Jews to immigrate is hypocritical
3/08/2022
These are the implications for Russian Jewry if Russia wins
3/07/2022
Poverty in the haredi sector is not destiny
2/28/2022
Should Israel Count World Jewry?
2/15/2022
Erdan is fit to continue representing the Israeli government at the UN
2/15/2022
Israel as Myth: Challenges and Opportunities
2/15/2022
Hebrews
2/07/2022
Reparations, Restitution and the Price of Forgetting
1/27/2022
The Haredi Leadership: Crime and its Punishment
1/23/2022
High Noon: The Rabbi versus the Colonel
1/17/2022
To Repair the Whole, We Must Understand its Parts
1/17/2022
AIPAC’s Gamble
12/28/2021
Political Extremism and the Jews
12/27/2021
So how, in fact, do Haredi women behave?
12/05/2021
Europe needs to allow Jews to practice shechita
11/15/2021
Too many changes to Israel’s Basic Laws can erode democracy
11/14/2021
What’s Next for Israel-Saudi Arabia Ties?
11/11/2021
The Government’s Housing Plan: Too Little, Not Socially Innovative, and Where are the Local Authority Heads?
11/11/2021
Measurement as a Policy Weapon in a New Age of Antisemitism
11/10/2021
The Threat of War Is the Only Way to Achieve Peace with Iran
11/10/2021
Climate action in Israel as a bridge for Jewish peoplehood
11/10/2021
Is Israeli-Palestinian peace a dream for the naive?
11/02/2021
Why won’t Sally Rooney allow her latest novel to be translated into Hebrew by an Israeli publisher?
10/11/2021
Environmental Protection is a Jewish Matter of Life and Death
10/07/2021
High Court Judge Selection is Critical in Israel’s Culture War
10/07/2021
Who’s In Favor of the Kashrut Reform? Those Who Don’t Much Care About Kashrut
10/03/2021
The Secular in Israel Must Enter the Jewish Arena
9/29/2021
Beyond Naming and Shaming: New Strategies Needed to Combat Antisemitism
9/27/2021
In Gilboa Prison, a Glimpse of Israel’s Impending Disaster
9/23/2021
From Tribalism to Cohesion, and the Israeli Cultural War
9/19/2021
Israel and American Jewry – Pause a Moment before the Abyss
9/13/2021
The US has Found Itself Mired in Muck and Blood Only Because of Utopian Visions of Democracy
9/10/2021
The (non-)draft law for Haredim
9/01/2021
Israel’s chance for a reset with American Jewry and Democrats
8/28/2021
Should Israel be apprehensive following the US abandonment of Afghanistan?
8/23/2021
Artem – Brother or Other?
8/08/2021
What Israelis Want: Kosher Food at Affordable Prices
7/26/2021
Is the Future of European Jewry in Danger?
7/21/2021
Is the Future of European Jewry in Danger?
7/21/2021
The missed potential of Tisha B’Av
7/19/2021
High Court gender segregation ruling provides for ‘A Room of Their Own’
7/19/2021
How can Israel convince gentiles if it can’t convince Jews?
7/15/2021
Iran as a Challenge to the Jerusalem-Washington-American Jewry Triangle
6/28/2021
The Pew 2020 survey in the context of demographic studies, and US Jewry in the global Jewish context
6/28/2021
Israel-Diaspora Relations and the Pew Report
6/01/2021
One, Two, or Three Jewish Identities among Jewish Americans?
6/01/2021
The 2021 Arab Israeli Riots and their Consequences
6/01/2021
Israel’s confrontation with Hamas is a strategic wake-up call
5/20/2021
Was the Coronavirus Year Really One of Deepening Polarization?
5/09/2021
Jewish Families Project
5/09/2021
Climate Change and the Jewish Question
5/09/2021
Why is it so Hard to Order Religion and State Relations in Israel?
4/28/2021
The Haredim: What Was Is Not What Will Be
3/21/2021
The downside of Blinken’s encouraging confirmation hearing – opinion
1/25/2021
Of Whales and Members of Knesset
12/25/2020
Trump’s defeat ends the Israeli right’s long celebration
11/10/2020
On Israel-Palestine, Biden Is Not Just Another Version of Obama
11/09/2020
Yitzhak’s Blood Cries Out to us from the Ground
10/30/2020
Must Israel ‘support Washington to face down Beijing?’ – analysis
10/29/2020
No substitute for Oslo and the ‘new Middle East’ – opinion
10/28/2020
Ultra-Orthodox Non-Compliance Rests on Fear
10/26/2020
An Organized Civil Disobedience Campaign
10/23/2020
At the Crossroads: The Ultra-Orthodox Community and Israeli Society
10/06/2020
From Politics to a Holy War
9/24/2020
Cries of Protest vs. Cries of Prayer
9/21/2020
Israeli Tribalism Will Be the Death of Us
9/14/2020
Gavison’s Last Will and Testament
8/17/2020
On Induction Cookers, Non-Jews and God
8/03/2020
Tisha Be’av: A Social Tragedy From Then to Now
7/30/2020
Applying Israeli sovereignty: It’s now or never – opinion
7/19/2020
Two Identity Cards
7/17/2020
The State of Tel Aviv is Founded
7/08/2020
No More Shame – No More Responsibility
7/07/2020
Another Unnecessary War of the Jews
7/01/2020
On the Street or in the Courtroom?
5/27/2020
The Rule of Law Over the Ruler
5/22/2020
Sanity Prevails: 11 to 0
5/10/2020
Moment of Truth for Judicial Restraint
5/08/2020
Two Hedgehogs and a Hydra
4/24/2020
The Yom Kippur of the Ultra-Orthodox
4/08/2020
Don’t Manage a Crisis under Threat of Investigation
3/23/2020
Virus and Democracy
3/19/2020
Israel’s Third Elections Marks the Defeat of Rabbi Kook’s Dream
3/13/2020
What’s at Stake in This Election?
3/02/2020
A Blow to the IDF as the ‘People’s Army’
2/26/2020
Our Jewish Solidarity is Eroding
2/11/2020
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
2/10/2020
Rabbis in Politics—A Disaster for Both
1/25/2020
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel vs. the Jews
1/19/2020
A Vote of Confidence in the Rule of Law
1/13/2020
It Boils Down to Netanyahu’s Conspiracy Theories
1/13/2020
The Decade in Review: Religion and State
12/31/2019
Israeli Voters – Not Judges
12/16/2019
Only the Voters can Put a Prime Minister Out to Pasture
12/16/2019
Justice in the Courtroom, Not in the Streets
11/29/2019
Assault on Israel’s Judicial System: The Angel of History is Watching Us
11/06/2019
The Coming Capitalist Revolution
11/04/2019
Jewish or Democratic? We Mustn’t Choose Between Them
9/26/2019
In Praise of Normalcy
9/26/2019
Solidarity is a Must for the Survival of the Jewish people
8/11/2019
Is Israel like Iran? Hardly
7/28/2019
Jewish Identity is Highly Explosive: Handle with Care
7/15/2019
DNA Tests for Jewishness
6/07/2019
Conversion: Joining a Religion or Joining a Nation?
6/04/2019
Solidifying the Israel-Diaspora Relationship
5/31/2019
The Liberal-Democratic Camp Will Keep on Losing Elections
5/14/2019
From Isolation to Integration
4/11/2019
Celebrating Voter’s Day
4/09/2019
Too Much Religion in the Knesset?
4/07/2019
The Jewish Home Has Forgotten What It Means To Be Jewish
3/25/2019
Take Great Care When You Limit Freedom of Expression
3/24/2019
Netanyahu vs. the State of Israel?
3/10/2019
OP-ED: IS THE CHIEF RABBINATE BECOMING OBSOLETE?
2/18/2019
Time to Vote for a Bloc!
2/06/2019
Israeli And Diaspora Jews: ‘We Are Siblings, Not Cousins’
1/17/2019
Observing the World from Our Own Perspective
1/17/2019
A Lethal Virus
1/17/2019
When the Government Provides Religious Services
1/03/2019
Two Democracies for Two Peoples
12/12/2018
The new (literary) engagement with Israel
12/12/2018
Beit Shemesh and Tel Aviv
11/08/2018
Faith and the City
11/01/2018
Are We Guilty? Are We Traitors?
9/17/2018
Rosh Hashanah: The Personal and the National
8/23/2018
We’re Staunch Zionists. And We Are Worried About Israel’s Democracy
8/01/2018
Israel Is Repeating The Mistakes That Led To The Temple’s Destruction
7/17/2018
Is it time to do away with Tisha B’Av?
7/16/2018
The Nation State Bill is a Constitutional Abandonment of Diaspora Jewry
7/13/2018
The Attack on Legal Oversight Threatens Us All
7/02/2018
Bnei Brak and Washington
5/21/2018
The Assault on the Rule of Law
2/20/2018
Will Netanyahu Surrender to the Annexation Camp?
2/16/2018
How Much Should Jewish Law Control the Jewish State?
2/05/2018
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu’s landmark visit to India
1/23/2018
From Peoplehood to Brotherhood
1/23/2018
Who are the ultra-Orthodox?
1/08/2018
Israel: Crying or Laughing?
12/20/2017
How Much Do Diaspora Jews Matter To Israel?
12/20/2017
Are Judges Objective?
11/30/2017
Two Jewish Nations and the Abyss Between Them
11/05/2017
Harmful Revolution: The Nation-State Bill’s Assault on Equality
10/19/2017
Religion Can Be the Bridge Linking Jews and Muslims
10/15/2017
Religion and State in Israel: Charting a New Course for 5778
9/28/2017
This Yom Kippur, Let’s Turn Down the Volume
9/27/2017
Ultra-Orthodox in the IDF: A Ticking Time Bomb
9/27/2017
Memories of an Anti-Semitic State Department
9/26/2017
Is the Chief Rabbinate’s Monopoly on Kashrut Over?
9/17/2017
The Voice of Our Brothers’ Blood
8/31/2017
What remains of the religious status quo?
7/24/2017
Op-Ed: Putting the Kotel Decision in Context
7/21/2017
Israel’s ‘Status Quo’ On Religion Is In Chaos
7/06/2017
Leviathans, Minnows and the Rule of Law
7/06/2017
Op-Ed: Red Lines Belong to the People
6/26/2017
Voyage to Identity
6/01/2017
Battling Over Equality
5/01/2017
Op-Ed: When Craziness Makes Sense
5/01/2017
Israel at 69 — Not What You Think
4/27/2017
Personal Holocaust, Personal Responsibility
4/24/2017
Op-Ed: Criticism of Israel is not Anti-Semitic – But it Quickly Leads There
4/10/2017
The Festival of Freedom and Responsibility
4/10/2017
Passover: Nationalism, Freedom and Humanism
4/06/2017
A Threat to the Foundations of Jewish Peoplehood
4/01/2017
Hijab, Kippah, Crucifix
3/23/2017
The Most Dangerous Terrorist in Israel is Someone You’ve Never Heard Of
3/20/2017
Op-Ed: Intel, Mobileye, and the Coming Technological Revolution
3/16/2017
Op-Ed: Shifts in the West: Impacts on Israel and the Jewish People
3/13/2017
Love and Identity: A Personal Story of a JPPI Senior Partner
3/08/2017
What these Conservative Supreme Court Justices Won’t Do
3/06/2017
Is Israeli Society Frail Or Flourishing?
1/17/2017
Is Israeli Society Falling Apart?
12/27/2016
Op-Ed: Why Anti-BDS Legislation is Important… But Ultimately Limited
11/16/2016
Op-Ed: The Trump Win: Hoping for a Strong America to Advance a Peace Initiative
11/10/2016
How To Prevent A Religious Civil War From Consuming Western Europe
9/29/2016
Rosh Hashanah Resolution
9/28/2016
Is Israeli Society Healthy or Afflicted?
9/27/2016
How to Save Israel’s Shabbat
9/23/2016
Surprised? Meet Israel’s New political Center
9/08/2016
Israel’s Tragedy: One Country, Separate School Systems
8/21/2016
Clinton Could Have Clout Over Israel
8/21/2016
Companions on a Shared Quest
8/14/2016
A New Approach To Dealing With Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox
8/11/2016
A Holy War Over Israel’s Character
8/03/2016
Time to Allow Everyone to Worship at the Foot of the Temple Mount as they Wish
7/12/2016
Op-Ed: Natan Sharansky on the late Elie Wiesel
7/04/2016
The ‘Religionization’ of Israel is Troubling, but the Fears About it are Hysterical
7/03/2016
An Israeli Shabbat
6/23/2016
Trump, Clinton and the King of Moab
6/20/2016
One Judaism, Two Nations
6/19/2016
Op-Ed in WSJ: The Improbable Happiness of Israelis
5/16/2016
The Jewish Happiness Index
5/11/2016
Passover To Independence Day: From Miracles To Responsibility
5/10/2016
Op-Ed: BDS Is Not The Answer
4/20/2016
Israel’s New Conversion Laws Give Power to the People
4/17/2016
Jewish, Democratic and Equal
4/14/2016
The Moral Imperative
4/14/2016
Op-Ed: A lesson from 1980
3/22/2016
Judicial Appointment Highlights Dramatic Changes Among Israeli Haredim
3/17/2016
The Mikveh Bill: When My Purity Means Your Impurity
3/16/2016
Op-Ed: Understanding Pew- Factoring in Israeli culture
3/14/2016
Op-Ed: The Truth from the U.S.
2/21/2016
The Charedi Draft: Here We Go Again
12/02/2015
‘Jewish and Democratic’ Even in Tough Times
10/29/2015
The Rabin Assassination and Religious Responsibility
10/26/2015
Rabin memorial into ‘Israeli Democracy Day’
10/19/2015
Op-Ed: The New Jewish Underground
10/11/2015
Praying with ‘Sinners’
9/24/2015
An Israeli Version of Repentance
9/16/2015
The End of the Chief Rabbinate?
8/13/2015
Should Jews Pray on the Temple Mount Today?
8/10/2015
Keeping Kosher: By Faith, Not By Force
7/16/2015
Op-Ed: Securing an Acceptable Iran Deal in the Long Run
7/05/2015
An Open Letter to the New Minister of Religious Services
6/04/2015
The Haredi Draft: Snakes and Ladders
4/29/2015
Op-Ed: Best of Luck to Rivlin
4/01/2015
Op-Ed: A Speech and a Wake-Up Call
3/12/2015
The Elephant in the Room: Relations between Religion and State in Israel
2/24/2015
New Partners in the Struggle Against Terrorism
2/18/2015
Op-Ed: Democratic Crisis or Jewish Catastrophe?
2/04/2015
Op-Ed: Fear-mongering and Jewish Peoplehood
11/23/2014
Is There a Place for God in the Israeli Army?
11/09/2014
Israeli Democracy Day: Yitzhak Rabin’s Legacy for the Future
11/04/2014
Adviser or Prosecutor? Israel’s Attorney General Can’t be Both
10/31/2014
Shmita: Rest, Share, Release
9/22/2014
A Social Iron Dome for Jewish-Arab Relations
8/11/2014
The Holyland Sentencing: A Faithful City?
5/18/2014
A Jewish State Warrants Our Sacrifice
5/16/2014
The Lessons of Passover: We are the Other
4/13/2014
Is “Israeli” a Nationality?
3/09/2014
The Haredi Draft: Is the Shaked Committee’s Bill Destined to be Overturned?
2/16/2014
The Haredi Draft: Equality Now?!
11/24/2013
The Binding of the Boy from Damascus
11/12/2013
Sir Isaac Newton and the New Haredim
10/31/2013
The High Holidays: A Personal and National Time
9/10/2013
How Can We Draft the Ultra-Orthodox with Consent?
8/27/2013
The Ultra-Orthodox Draft: Crossing the Third Rubicon
8/18/2013
The Referendum Law: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
7/30/2013
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate: My Beloved Turned Away
7/26/2013
The Ultra-Orthodox Draft: A Test of the New Israeli Politics
7/18/2013
The Peri Committee Recommendations: Fanning the Flames of Haredi Extremism
6/15/2013
Conversion in Israel: From Bethlehem to Chelm to Sodom
5/14/2013
Op-Ed: Remembering Jack Kay, ‘A Giant in the Jewish World’
4/24/2013
Israel at 65: The Tale of a Sleeping Beauty
4/14/2013
The Haredi Draft: The Need for an Alliance of the Moderates
2/27/2013
A Coalition of Hope
1/29/2013
Habayit Hayehudi and Refusal of Orders: The Real Question
12/26/2012
Religious Zionism: Integration or Isolation?
10/29/2012
The Haredim and the State of Israel
9/20/2012
Israel Independence Day – For What Kind of State?
4/24/2012
The Allure of Miracles
4/06/2012
Justice vs. Law: King Solomon and Ivan the Terrible
3/18/2012
The Tal Law: Judicial Activism at its Height
2/28/2012
In the Aftermath of the Tal Law
2/22/2012
The Exclusion of Women and Control of the Public Sphere
1/10/2012
A Jewish and Undemocratic State?
11/09/2011
The Responsibility of a Sovereign State
10/24/2011
The Democratic Year in Review: The Knesset’s Missed Opportunity
10/03/2011
A Tragedy of Errors
6/20/2011
The Quality of Independence
5/08/2011
Religious Incitement: A Test Case for Freedom of Speech?
2/26/2011
Op-Ed: Israel Is a Victim of Turkey’s Transformation
12/15/2010
An analysis of the proposed comprehensive counter-terrorism bill that was prepared by IDI’s Terrorism and Democracy research team and submitted to the Ministry of Justice.
12/13/2010
Op-Ed: The Morning After
11/28/2010
Op-Ed: Debasing a Foundational Idea
10/17/2010
Loyalty is Not a Value
10/14/2010
A Boycott on Both Your Houses
9/15/2010
Judaism’s Gatekeepers
9/07/2010
Who Really Cares about Converts?
7/21/2010
From Ruth to Natasha
5/25/2010
Decade in Review: A Rocky Road for Israeli Courts
1/30/2010
Dismantling Sectarian Cities of Refuge
12/07/2009
Our False Apprehensions
6/28/2009
Right of Reply: The Jewish Case for the Israel Democracy Institute
5/10/2009
Gamblers in Disguise
10/29/2008
Executive Salaries and the Financial Crisis
10/26/2008
Orthodox Ought to Lead the Search for a Solution: How Should Israel Treat Refugees from Darfur?
9/05/2007