With a mountain of caveats, and for all the criticism it gets, Israeli democracy survived this year. It was a remarkable display of resilience, against…
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Under the pall of another year of the pandemic, here are the opinions, from Pegasus to the Palestinians, Trump to Tehran, Bennett to Bio-Zionists, that…
Cynical about the so-called ‘peace industry’? Don’t believe the clichés, or the slurs. Thanks to massive new U.S. funding, Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding programs are about to…
Walder was a master storyteller who crushed his victims’ right to tell their own stories of his alleged sexual abuse. Now the Haredi world is…
India’s tiny Christian minority now joins Muslims as targets of the majoritarian mob, baying for a theocratic Hindu state with Modi as high priest. Only…
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From Berlin 1936 to Beijing 2022: History, the Holocaust and humanity requires a refusal to send diplomats to the Games, in solidarity with the Uyghurs…
India’s tiny Christian minority now joins its Muslims as the target of the majoritarian mob baying for a theocratic Hindu state, with Modi as its…
The Western Wall is a holy site for all Jews everywhere. It should reflect the true diversity of Jewish practice around the world. But by…
Since the fading of an imminent nuclear deal, there’s been plenty of ink spilt opining, wrongly, that Israel has no military option. If Israel finds…
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After a contentious election, President-elect Boric states he will be ‘the president of all Chileans.’ We, Chilean Jews and the Jewish world more broadly, should…
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
“Israel was born a Jewish state and will remain so,” said United Arab List head Mansour Abbas. And then the hyperbole, from all sides, began.…
Trump’s obscenities and antisemitic tropes don’t bother his Jewish fans. But a recent quote has stunned his pro-Israel base, evangelicals and Jews, to the core…
‘Like turning Eichmann into a folk hero’: How far right nationalists in the Balkans are rehabilitating war criminals and their atrocities, from the perpetrators of…