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The Knesset’s Pyrrhic victory
By
Benjamin Lau
The desire to subjugate the other side threatens the Jewish homeland; now, everyone must set aside being right in favor of peace
Yosef Blau
American Jewry faces a quandary, but does it know it?
Young US Jews don’t prioritize Israel the way their parents did, nor do young Israelis like US democracy as a model. With the gap is growing, now what?
Ruth Ebenstein
It was a morning protest and we needed a Torah scroll for the Shacharit prayers
Written for the healing of a signatory of Israel’s Declaration of Independence who had championed crossing ideological divides, what could be better?
The tragedy of being right
By
Yael Shahar
One school of Jewish law favored tradition, another innovation, but it was only when they tried to fix one over the other that things really went wrong
Sharon Shalom
Redemption not destruction: What the elders in my village taught me
This is not the destruction of the Third Temple. It’s the construction of another floor inside the Third Temple.
Naomi Chazan
To restart, not repeat – that’s what Israel needs now
Do those calling for consensus think the electorate is blind?! The country must grapple with its issues and reboot altogether
When I left for work today, the sofa cushions still had stuffing
By
Rivka Ravitz
Summer vacation is a powerful reminder of the Israeli labor market’s bias against the parents of schoolchildren
Joshua Hantman
A game of Gulf
If the Saudis invested vast sums of money in Palestinian infrastructure, there’d be a real chance of peace and security
Nancy Cahners
Old-people love: We’re not dead yet!
Thoughts for Tu B’Av: Being aware that we don’t have forever to fill gives our relationships that now-or-never feeling
Essay
The wounded Jewish psyche and the divided Israeli soul
By
Yossi Klein Halevi
Understanding Israel’s moment of truth – from the war on Start-up Nation, to the moral crisis in Orthodox Jewry, to the author’s personal failure of empathy for political opponents
Top Ops
Daniel Orenstein
I asked AI how to turn Israel into a dictatorship. We are on our way
When ChatGPT agrees with the real live expert in democratic regimes that have fallen to dictators
Suzie Navot
The decimation of restraints on government power
As with abolishing the reasonableness doctrine, the Incapacitation Law exempts the country’s leaders from judicial oversight
Yuval Cherlow
The ethics of information-sharing in Jewish relationships
True love demands that we give of ourselves and treat the other party just as we ourselves would want to be treated (Tu B’Av)
Peta Jones Pellach
That’s not what I meant by ‘peace’
We’ve lost sight of the values of justice and freedom that the prophets upheld. To get it back, we must dream of our own potential
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