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I’m stepping back from hugs and embracing the mitzvah of consent
By
Neshama Carlebach
Just as we’re exiting COVID lockdown into a touch-starved world, I’ve had the uncomfortable realization that my family’s tradition of hugging needs to be re-examined
Isaac Herzog
‘Think Good’: Time to transform the online discourse in Israel
On launching a campaign to encourage us all to stop before posting yet another insult and instead choose words that shine our inner light and help others shine theirs
Sam Lehman-Wilzig
Too many IDF soldiers: What will replace universal army service?
With signs that a smaller, higher tech army is already on the way, there is an alternative that would even include the ultra-Orthodox and Arab sectors
Andrew Silow-Carroll
Larry David has never been more Jewish than in this season’s ‘Curb’
David’s character is sacrilegious and heretical, but to dismiss him as ’self-hating’ is to miss out on the unmistakably Jewish conversation at the heart of the show
So how, in fact, do Haredi women behave?
By
Gitit Levy-Paz
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?
Sheldon Kirshner
Lara Logan’s grotesque comparison: Fauci and Mengele
How could anyone who calls herself a journalist compare an upstanding, caring scientist to the Nazi war criminal known as the Angel of Death?
Yes, there is a peacebuilding community in Israel and Palestine
By
Ron Kronish
Dozens of organizations keep a flicker of hope burning, engaging out of the limelight in dialogue, advocacy and grassroots cooperative programs
Shuki Friedman
The IDF’s ‘Operation Guardian of the Pensions’ will backfire
The army’s campaign to prop up extravagant retirement payouts busts the budget and rankles the public. Becoming fodder for satire is not a good sign.
Barry H. Block
Social justice should not be controversial
American Jews must not turn away from the Torah’s imperative that we learn about and work for a more just, peaceful, and equitable world
A radical answer to Joseph, the evil tzadik: Building a just society
By
Jeremy Benstein
How the sabbatical year solves the boom and bust business cycle, first sparked by a canny tycoon who had insider info and the keys to the kingdom (Vayigash)
Top Ops
Dan Perry
A surreal encounter with Yasser Arafat
A 2001 sitdown left open key questions: Who was sending young crazies to blow themselves up in Israeli buses and cafes, and why turn down a Palestinian state?
Ariel Finkelstein
Can Israel’s politicians regain Israelis’ trust?
If they’d hand over political power to local authorities, that just might do the trick
Pinchas Goldschmidt
In Europe, we are freeing chained wives
A law extending the jurisdiction of Israel’s rabbinical courts over non-Israeli agunot has already helped free 80 women. And that’s just one tool in our arsenal
David Collier
What type of Jews do we want to be?
While the Jewish community reacts to hate when it’s banging at the door, it makes the fatal error of ignoring the root causes in the futile hope it will all blow over
Toni L. Kamins
There is no December dilemma
You’re either a Jew or you’re not, and if you are, you shouldn’t be celebrating Christmas or that other Christian holiday eight days later
Joshua Koonin
Why the Bennett vacation story matters
The conduct of the Bennett family suggests that politics rather than a truly perceived grave threat of the Omicron variant drove the PM to curtail air travel
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