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Judgment Day
It’s the month of Elul, the time when we begin the introspection that culminates with the High Holidays. So I ...
Funding Haredi Education
The Knesset has passed a law saying that Haredi high schools can legally get funding without teaching the core curriculum, ...
Israel’s Parties
Yoel Marcus asks of Benjamin Netanyahu, “What is the secret of this man, who flubbed up as prime minister, who ...
P(r)aying for a Blessing
On the way out of work yesterday, I was a little dazed — possibly by the sun, possibly by the ...
Coming to Israel
The Jewish Agency releases a new plan for attracting 1,000 American high-tech professionals to Israel by 2010, but “Just 30 ...
Africans, Emigrating to Israel, Shot by Egypt
NPR reports that refugees from Sudan, Eritrea and Kenya, fleeing the economic and health crises in their own countries, are ...
The Jews of India
A recent issue of the Economist had a fascinating review of Edna Fernandes’ new book The Last Jews of Kerala: ...
A Vice President, a Sacred Space
I went home for Shabbat. Home meaning my parents’ house, which despite knowing I shouldn’t — I have an apartment ...
On the Ground Peace Efforts
“The whole idea of Chefs for Peace is to show that here we are, working in one kitchen, Muslim, Christian ...
Hamas in Gaza
Ali Waked reports that the Hamas raid on the Hilles clan compound marks the completion of the June 2007 revolution, ...
West Bank Update
A “large number of lower-level Hamas activists have recently been released from Israeli jails after serving sentences of about five ...
The Syria Update
Jonathan Spyer explains why Syria is in no particular hurry to reach a deal with Israel. (Jerusalem Post)Zvi Bar’el makes ...