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Feb 8, 2013, 9:58 AM

Peace later, US diplomacy now

An American push for a final-status Israeli-Palestinian agreement will fall flat

Nov 26, 2012, 6:16 PM

Just don’t call them ‘Nationalists’

The majority of Likud primary-voters opted for ideological purity and uncompromising extremism

Nov 18, 2012, 6:11 AM

Back to the future in Gaza

The story is eerily familiar. Israel and Gaza enjoy a period of relative calm. Terrorists skirmish with Israeli soldiers along the border fence. A trickle of mortars and rockets fall on outlying villages and Kibbutzim. Israel retaliates tit-for-tat. IDF patrols...

Sep 21, 2012, 9:07 AM

Throwing peace under the bus

As a candidate for president, Romney should lay out his vision for beaking the current deadlock, not playing the blame game

Aug 31, 2012, 12:45 AM

Chutzpah in Tehran

The secretary general displayed a rare chutzpah when he walked into Tehran and censured Iran for its racism and genocidal rhetoric

Jul 30, 2012, 7:44 AM

What to expect during campaign 2012

Over the coming months, both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama will attempt to color themselves blue and white, but when all is said and done, it doesn't really matter

Jul 18, 2012, 6:41 PM

Let’s hold off on the concubines

There's been quite the fuss over a halakhic ruling which supposedly permits men to have "kosher adultery." While this is pure nonsense, it does provide an opportunity to refocus on Orthodoxy's real relationship issues. The truth is, all the brouhaha...

Jul 18, 2012, 12:47 AM

Who’s the sucker, now?

Seventy days ago, Kadima joined the governing coalition and saved Netanyahu from early elections. In exchange, Bibi promised that a Kadima-led committee would draft a new universal service bill. Thus, the Plesner committee was born. But all was not well...

Jul 11, 2012, 11:44 PM

65 years after the Exodus, we’re still in the same boat.

Sixty-five years ago, my grandparents set sail for the port of Haifa aboard the Exodus 1947. They were a newlywed couple, pregnant with their first child and fleeing the ashes of post-war Europe. On July 18, 1947, when the...

Jul 11, 2012, 12:23 AM

Diaspora Jews should stay out of draft debate

Apparently, the massive rally calling for an end to exemptions from IDF service was bankrolled by significant philanthropic leaders in the global Jewish community. Diaspora Jews generally have the right, and the obligation, to engage in the Israeli civic...

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About Me

Ari Moshkovski is a Doctoral Candidate in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. He holds an M.A. from Brandeis University, as well as a B.A. and M.A. from Queens College of the City University of New York. At Queens College, he engaged in extensive research and curriculum development on Israel and the Middle East as part of a project funded by the Clinton Global Initiative and the Ford Foundation. Ari was also a co-founder of the Queens College Center for Ethnic, Racial and Religious Understanding under a grant from the United States Department of Education. Has researched, taught, and lectured on Zionism, Jewish thought, Israeli foreign affairs and security policy, Arab-Israeli diplomacy, and the nexus between religion and politics.