On the surface, the Israeli marketplace of ideas crosses a very deep divide that splits us into two camps—"democrats" and "Jews." In practice, only a tiny fringe element objects to the state defining itself as "Jewish" and seeks "a state of all its citizens." Similarly, only a small, marginal group opposes a democratic state and favors an alternative vision, like…

The ongoing financial crisis, however, has confronted us with a very different reality: the people most engaged in calculation – whom we entrusted with the responsibility of managing every aspect of our lives, from retirement to natural disasters – acted systematically and persistently in a dangerous manner that eventually led to the collective suicide of some of the most established…

The initiative is in fact valid, in principle, from a capitalist point of view. One doesn't necessarily have to have socialist tendencies—although there is nothing wrong with those who do—in order to support salary caps for executives, only rational and realistic ones.According to Israeli corporate law, directorates and shareholders are responsible for overseeing executives and setting salary levels. But in…

The question before us here is to what extent we have a responsibility, as a Jewish democratic nation, to pursue tikkun olam on a countrywide scale. In recent months, Israel has been faced with an opportunity to prove itself truly committed to this ideal. Waves of Sudanese refugees have been arriving weekly at the Israeli border. They hope to find…