History
Israel’s Government
-Is Israel’s government becoming a gerontocracy? (Haaretz)-Isi Leibler says that not only “our prime minister is a failed leader,� but ...
Shut Up, I’m Talking
Today’s edition of the Very Short List features Gregory Levey’s memoir Shut Up, I’m Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I ...
Muslims and Jews
-As Jewish-Muslim interfaith efforts intensify, critics say that Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is selective in which acts of terrorism ...
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 ...