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Joseph Cedar

Israeli director explores Religious Zionist community to great acclaim.

People or Religion

In honor of the debate I had with Ariel Beery this week about distinctions between Jewish Peoplehood and the Jewish ...

What’s a shababnik?

I tend to think I have a fairly good grasp of Jewish lingo, but this YNet article on a real-life ...

The West Bank

-The illegal Shvut Ami outpost, built in part on privately owned Palestinian land, has been evacuated nine times, and now ...

Israel’s Minorities

-In the wake of blast that severely injured 15-year-old youth belonging to their community, Messianic Jews speak out against ill ...

Christians and Jews

-An “observant Catholic with Jewish tendencies, and … a Jew sobered up from a drugged out mysticism� combine to write ...

Women in Israel

-Israel’s parliament is only 14.2% women, ranking it 101 out of 188 countries, even below some Muslim countries like Tunisia ...

Jews & the Disabled

-A look at the treatment of marginal individuals (lepers, the disabled and the mentally ill) in medieval Northern European Jewish ...

Ultra Nomenclature

In the Forward this week, Abbott Katz begins his plea for new Jewish nomenclature with: “Stop calling me an ultra-Orthodox ...

Who’s More Pro-Israel?

I spent this past weekend with 175 Jewish high school students from the New York region of USY. The educational ...

Attitudes Toward the “Other”

-A majority of Israeli public feels religious and secular Jews ought to live in separate neighborhoods. (Ynet)-A new poll looks ...

Iranian Jewry in Political Action

As our homepage article addresses, many Jews from Iran left the country after the 1979 revolution. Those that came to ...

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