Additional Publications

Democracy

Crossing the Rubicon

A Jewish-Zionist candidate joining Arab party, and Haredi politicians entering non-sectarian parties, could help reduce the alienation many Israelis feel toward the Arab and Haredi communities.
Democracy
Identity and Education

A wedding, a war and the generation carrying Israel forward

The young Israelis who rushed to serve after October 7 are now marrying, studying and starting careers, carrying the burdens of war while building the country they fought to defend.
Identity and Education
Geopolitics

Israelis are angry at Europe, yet still drawn to it

Since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023, relations between Israel and several European Union member states have entered one of their most difficult periods in recent memory.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics

Israel’s Next Front: The Power of Attraction

Universities, hospitals, cultural and sporting institutions, technology companies and philanthropic foundations increasingly shape a country’s international influence.
Geopolitics
Democracy

‘Enemy of the people’? A free press is democracy’s lifeblood

Israel’s free press will not die overnight. But it can slowly wither and censor itself, ultimately harming all sides of the political spectrum.
Democracy
Antisemitism

Professors Should Fight Campus Jew-Hatred as Educators, Not Bureaucrats

These are educational institutions. But most universities have allowed bureaucrats – in Washington and on campus – to hijack what could be “teachable moments.”
Antisemitism
Geopolitics

Has Israel been sidelined as the new regional order is being written?

Israel fought the wars, paid the price, and transformed the region – only for others to write the new Middle East without it.
Geopolitics
Identity and Education

Europe, Israel, and the medical record of a nation

Different faces, different ailments. Yet by the fourth pharmacy, the names had stopped sounding like unrelated prescriptions. Heard together, they suggested a kind of national medical record.
Identity and Education
Identity and Education

Zealotry – not baseless hatred – will lead to Israel’s collapse

Today, as in ancient times, ideologues will risk civil war to thwart compromises. Fortunately, most of the nation thinks they're wrong.
Identity and Education