April 7, 2013
11:37 pm

On Yom Hashoah: Anti-Semitism and Europe’s responsibility

I am currently reading Amos Elon's wonderful book on the tragedy of German Jewry, "The Pity of It All". A Jewish community that produced some of the greatest......

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March 29, 2013
12:42 pm

A courtroom triumph for anti-Semitism tells of something rotten in Britain

I am not easily surprised by otherwise shocking news of anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism from the UK, where I lived for the first 29 years of my life. I......

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March 23, 2013
10:45 pm

After the speech: Tough questions need to be asked

JUST before the Israeli elections, I wrote an article for another news site in which I identified the "center-ground" of Israel politics, where the majority of Israelis......

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March 15, 2013
12:22 am

Time to cheer the ousting of the theocrats

SO if I'm honest, I do complain a lot about the government. I'm not alone of course. Most of us contributing op-eds about Israeli politics are more likely......

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February 11, 2013
1:40 pm

David Hartman and a morally driven Judaism

I stood Monday morning with hundreds of other mourners, squeezed into the Beit Midrash of the Shalom Hartman Institute – with another couple of hundred or so......

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January 28, 2013
6:38 pm

Israel’s Tea Party and how it helped Yair Lapid

With the rise of the Tea Party in the US, and Mitt Romney's frantic dash to the far-right in order to secure the Republican nomination, Americans are no......

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December 26, 2012
7:58 am

Question for the center/left: what do you do if there really is no one to negotiate with?

Now that Shelly Yacimovich has been dragged, kicking and screaming, into the diplomacy/security debate we at last have a picture of what the four center/left parties would do......

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December 1, 2012
11:10 pm

Tel Aviv and Jerusalem sirens will expand the already-crowded political center

In politics, on most issues, there is a left, a right and a center. And in most countries, at most times, the majority of the people are in......

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November 3, 2012
12:51 am

So most American Jews will vote Obama? Deal with it

Many of us here in Israel have strong views about the upcoming US presidential election. It's not so surprising. To a degree not true of any other country's......

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June 28, 2012
9:36 pm

The case for nuance in Israel education

I serve as the director of the "Israel Government Fellows" program, a ten-month program for top Jewish graduates from around the world, run by the ...

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June 8, 2012
5:17 pm

So does either side actually want a two-state solution?

IN his speech last week at the conference of the Institute for National Security Studies, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his call for "peace between two nation-states -......

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April 2, 2012
4:07 pm

It was fascism in Toulouse

The original suspects for the cold-blooded murder in Toulouse of Jonathan Sandler, his young children Aryeh and Gabriel, and 8-year old Miriam Monsonego were three neo-Nazis. Police had linked......

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