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Hello, has anyone noticed China’s pivot against Israel?

President Xi rebuked Israel in a statement co-signed by Iran’s president. That has never happened before
US Jewry

US Jews issue penalty card to the Israeli government

The basic facts are that the majority of non-Orthodox American Jews are liberal supporters of the Democratic Party and its values
US Jewry
Democracy

Israeli Politics is Undergoing Tectonic Change

Many people, including those who voted for the current government, are starting to ask themselves what it is that they really support, and their answer is some form of liberal democracy.
Democracy
Democracy

Opinion: Engage Moderate Religious Zionists on Israeli Judicial Reform

Beneath the sound and fury of the conflict between contending sides for or against the “reform” of the justice system, Israeli politics and society may be undergoing a tectonic shift.
Democracy

Anti-government protest in Tel Aviv. Photo by Gideon Markovich, TPS

Democracy

Do not alienate those who disagree with you politically

Compromise is necessary to preserve solidarity between us.
Democracy

Mothers’ broken hearts

“My heart is broken.” The scribbled letters, red marker on white burlap, cried out to me amid the more polished signs decrying the “end of democracy” and proclaiming “the duty to resist” in gleaming black and white.
Geopolitics

Judicial revolution endangers settlement enterprise

The voices in the world calling on Israel to halt the proposed judicial reform are not asking Israel to refrain from rectifying or adjusting the current balance of power
Geopolitics
Democracy

Neither side can win on judicial reform

Although the legislative process is well on its way, it is still not too late to seek dialogue and reach a compromise to prevent a schism in Israeli society and preserve our solidarity
Democracy
Religion and State

The unhealthy law against chametz in hospitals

There’s one thing such a law most likely won’t do, and that’s keeping chametz from being brought into hospitals
Religion and State
Democracy

The time for dialogue is now!

The current crisis can be an opportunity to rectify the constitutional vacuum through broad compromise on the rules of the game
Democracy