“Yom Yerushalayim often gets the short end of the stick, often overlooked even by those who profess to celebrate it”
Yom Yerushalayim often gets the short end of the stick, often overlooked even by...
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“After years of fragmentation, Israeli society seems to be consolidating anew – fusing Jewishness and nationalism, and decidedly on the right”
After years of fragmentation, Israeli society seems to be consolidating anew – fusing Jewishness...
Bibi “has no true ideological home, so he has made his home the Prime Minister’s Office”
It’s a mistake to put Netanyahu in the same category as the strongmen riding...
“You can certainly keep people out of your country if you believe they are undermining it; you are playing with fire if you keep people out who disagree with you”
I sincerely doubt the Prime Minister of Israel is directing anyone to interrogate Peter...
“There are really important arenas…where the comparisons between these two countries need to be interrogated, and where deep work has to take place in order to ensure that the two societies are not reinforcing each others’ weaknesses”
There are really important arenas – ideological trends like the rise of nationalism and...
“With the erosion of ethnic boundaries in Israel, and the mixing of different traditions to form a more general ‘Israeliness’, traditionalism has become mainstream”
The roots of traditionalism lie in Mizrachi Judaism. In the Orient, instead of the...
“You say you don’t want to connect to Israel for x, y, and z reasons, but – tell me something: do you care about a conversation about Jews in power?”
You say you don’t want to connect to Israel for x, y, and z...
“Debates about Israel seem to be the precise place where “existential anxiety” stopped referring to philosophical angst and started referring to the fear your nation could be destroyed”
Our current use of “existential” is about as far removed from artsy-philosophical realms as...
“The ‘most moral army in the world’ talking point is both substantively and tactically foolish, it convinces nobody…”
The IDF is not the most moral army in the world, because there is...
When Michael Oren shifted the definition of “existential”
In 2009, Michael B. Oren, soon to become Israel’s ambassador to the United States,...