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…

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.

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?

Eight European countries have banned the practice of shechita.

Although legally permissible, these frequent changes constitute an abuse of the Knesset’s powers as a constituent authority.

For Saudi Arabia to be able to normalize relations with Israel, it is imperative that the reformist camp receive much needed support from Washington.

The government’s housing plan is a tiny bandage on a bleeding market * The plan doesn’t meaningfully address Israel’s high housing prices * Not much can be done in the housing market without the cooperation of local government * And not every program created by the previous government has to be completely overhauled   The government’s recently-unveiled housing plan does…

American Jews may now be experiencing something they have not faced in the century since the wave of nativism that swept the US after World War I: politically purposed antisemitism. Along with this resurgence has come a wave of incidents, both minor and all too deadly. There is the possibility of a fundamental shift in the relationship with larger US…

Tehran no longer takes Washington seriously, so the Biden administration needs to put the prospect of military escalation back on the table if it hopes to make progress on the nuclear issue.