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Democracy

Israel’s Declaration: A Secular Sacred Text, Not a Legal Weapon

Those who cherish the Declaration must resist placing it in the legal arena.
Democracy
Identity and Education

The Perfect Storm: Why this Rosh Hashanah May Start Israel’s Most Challenging Year Yet

A convergence of trends and events – some global, some local – threatens to turn the Jewish New Year into a “perfect storm” for Israel, from elections and war to diplomacy and climate change.
Identity and Education
Geopolitics

Israel cannot prevent another October 7 if Netanyahu keeps rewriting the first one

Israel cannot learn from October 7 if its leaders continue to deflect responsibility and rewrite the failures that made the massacre possible.
Geopolitics
Religion and State

When women are asked to disappear

In every case, the same principle is being established: when a man’s beliefs collide with a woman’s presence, the woman is the one expected to move.
Religion and State
Religion and State

Netanyahu’s false promise of ‘study or serve’

The latest Haredi draft slogan gives voters exactly what they want to hear without delivering the soldiers Israel needs.
Religion and State
Identity and Education

The right to disappear: What Israel can learn from Europe about privacy

Vienna’s search for two missing Israelis highlights the tension between family’s right to know and an adult’s right to privacy.
Identity and Education
Geopolitics

Finland and the Israel paradox

Countries already confronting immediate security threats may criticize Israeli policy, yet still regard Israel as an unusually valuable security partner.
Geopolitics
Identity and Education

AI will not change the Jews – or will it?

AI may not change what it means to be Jewish. But it could profoundly change the institutions through which Jewish life has been transmitted from one generation to another.
Identity and Education
Democracy

When pride meets prejudice: Europe’s LGBTQ movement is forgetting what inclusion means

How can organizations dedicated to protecting minorities overlook antisemitism within coalitions they otherwise embrace?
Democracy