History
From the Academy: David Shneer
In the second installment of “From the Academy,” Dr. David Shneer, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center ...
Watchdogs, Superheroes, & Second Life
-Sayed Kashua, an Israeli-born Arab journalist, and author has created a prime-time situation comedy which “deals with Israeli society’s prejudices ...
The Sephardi World
-David Shasha sets forth that “Sephardic culture, which espouses an outlook of tolerance and coexistence…could speak in a sophisticated and ...
Obama and Israel
-Aaron Klein argues that Robert Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, “penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books ...
I Wonder What’s On the Menu
From JTA: Nefesh B’Nefesh set up a large-screen TV in its Jerusalem offices for expatriate Americans to watch the Super ...
Israeli Demographics
–The total fertility rate in the country’s ultra-Orthodox community has dropped sharply in the past several years, e.g. in the ...
Let There Be Light
I generally don’t enjoy people who obsess about the media being anti-Israel, but this egregious case of bias is rather ...
Do They Need A Program Director?
This past week, The Simpsons featured the Hillel from Marge’s college days in a flashback. So what else does Hillel ...
Civilized Discourse
-Rabbi Avi Shafran takes a dour view of blogs: responsible blogs, in the Jewish realm are “decidedly in the minority. ...
Israel Academia Monitor
Last week, YNet reprinted an article by Aaron Klein, which purports to be about anti-Zionist positions held by Israeli academics, ...