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Sara Hirschhorn

Dr Sara Hirschhorn is a postdoctoral fellow at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University… [More]

February 15, 2013
6:25 am

En”Teitel”ed to Punishment?

Earlier this week, Israeli prosecutors in Jerusalem District Court recommended sentencing for the so-called Jewish terrorist Yaakov “Jack” Teitel — an American-Israeli, former Floridian, and resident of the West......

November 19, 2012
5:00 am

Ivory tower as battleground

Thank God that today I do not sit in a bomb shelter in Beersheva or huddled in my home in Gaza City experiencing the real war. Here in the......

November 13, 2012
6:22 am

Mr (Greater) Israel: Is this the new face of the Israeli right?

“Radical right wing activist turned bodybuilder!” trumpeted the tantalizing headline in Maariv recently, advertising an unusual story about settlers in the occupied territories. In full disclosure, I wrote my......

November 7, 2012
7:33 pm

On November 7th, Why I’m Still an Undecided Voter

On the anti-climatic morning of November 7, the polls have closed, concession and acceptance speeches were delivered, balloons fell, campaign signs and festive bunting unceremoniously already discarded, and a......

October 18, 2012
7:11 am

I Saw You At…Mastercard? Adventures in Online Jewish Dating

“New Year, New Beginnings!” my Jewish mother gleefully suggested, quoting the old Jewish saying of “Change of Location, Change of Fortune” as a good omen for dating with my......

October 2, 2012
8:38 pm

All the single (Modern Orthodox) ladies

The hagim are always a wonderful season filled with reflection, prayer, food, community, and new beginnings. However, as a 31-year-old single woman who identifies with the Modern Orthodox Jewish......

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July 11, 2012
4:16 am

From Levy to Area C: An opportunity to miss an opportunity

This week, a judicial committee empanelled by the Netanyahu government reached a (literally) ground-breaking decision: There is no such thing as the occupation. The ...

June 27, 2012
12:34 am

The conflict at home

Late last week, Princeton professor and ex-Director of Policy Planning at the State Dept. Anne-Marie Slaughter killed any dwindling hope for third-wave feminists seeking to balance career and family......

June 19, 2012
5:25 am

Occupying minds

Next month, the 20-year-old University Center of Samaria (UCS), located in the West Bank city-settlement of Ariel, is likely to receive final authorization from the Ministry of......

May 25, 2012
8:01 am

(Capitol) Hill vs. the Palestinian refugees

Yesterday, news broke in the halls of Congress that an amendment to the 2013 Foreign Operations Appropriation bill by my junior senator Mark Kirk (R-Illinois) that caused a tempest......

May 16, 2012
1:37 am

If you whine it, it is no dream

Over the past few weeks, Sarah Tuttle-Singer has become the latest Israeli pundit we love to hate as the leader of the internet brat-pack of the “complainglos,” a......

April 26, 2012
7:50 am

Israel: State or settlement?

While the Israeli public was lighting memorial candles for its fallen soldiers and clustered around the mangal this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quietly took advantage of the smoke......

March 29, 2012
7:55 pm

Who has the monopoly on truth at Migron?

Renowned historian Peter Novick, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago (the institution where I will soon receive my own doctorate), who died this month of lung cancer at......

March 16, 2012
6:20 am

Uri L’Tzedek, where is the justice?

Despite unseasonably warm weather across the globe, what really raised the temperature among some in the left-leaning constituency of the Dati Leumi (National Religious) community this week was the......

March 11, 2012
4:03 am

One state, two state, green state, orange state

Last week, the latest battle for the soul of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict erupted — not in the refugee camps of Gaza, the settlements of the West Bank, or the......