Baruch Stein

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Mar 21, 2021, 5:56 PM

Bibi Netanyahu vs Donald Trump

Donald Trump lost his election but even after his legal appeals were rejected, he thought that by refusing to accept his loss he was being tenacious. Once the election is over, rejecting the result is not tenacious, it is...

Nov 14, 2019, 1:55 PM

Dear Moshe Kahlon, It’s Time to Take a Stand

Dear Moshe, I spent two campaigns volunteering for Kulanu and I was at nearly every one of the biannual Kulanu Party gatherings. When you merged with the Likud some of your most influential supporters were disheartened but I wrote...

Sep 29, 2019, 1:29 AM

Leaving with Dignity

On December 31, 1973, Israel held an election in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War. Golda Meir’s Alignment Party won 51 seats and formed a governing coalition with the National Religious Party and the Independent Liberals Party. The...

Sep 17, 2019, 12:41 PM

Liberman’s Moment

Avigdor Liberman and his Yisrael Beitenu Party are often associated with the far right but they have consistently backed two states. Their plan is to draw major Arab-Israeli population centers out of a future Israel. Jewish population centers east...

Sep 16, 2019, 10:22 AM

Voting Liberman, for heaven’s sake

Former defense minister and Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

If you want to see religious reform in the next Knesset, you need Yisrael Beytenu to continue blocking the formation of a rightist-Haredi coalition

Apr 7, 2019, 2:14 PM

Campaigns for the 2020 American election have begun. Candidates will address every imaginable issue including immigration, gun control, foreign policy and others. Here too, politicians talk about lots of things but in Israeli politics there is really only one...

Feb 14, 2019, 1:14 AM

Gun Control For A Border Wall

If politicians do not reach an agreement regarding security along the US-Mexican border, another government shutdown could be on the horizon. I am neither a Republican nor a Trump supporter but the idea that physical barriers would reduce the trafficking...

Oct 10, 2017, 3:25 AM

Eisenkot’s mistake

Elor Azaria was convicted of manslaughter for shooting Abdel Fattah al-Sharif while he laid immobile, having already been shot while undertaking a stabbing attack against Israeli soldiers. More astonishing than the absurdity of Azaria’s defense is the failure of...

Jun 11, 2017, 7:40 AM

A superficial stunt, and a historic opening

Instead of simply calling for the establishment of a Palestinian State from the river to the sea, Hamas now calls for the establishment of a state along the ‘67 lines as an intermediate step. Stating the strategy through which they...

Jan 20, 2016, 7:38 AM

I am an American-born oleh. In preparation for a twelve day trip home, I recently went to AT&T’s website, and clicked on the $2/day GoPhone plan. I was disconcerted to notice a $25 refill card automatically slipped into my cart....

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About Me

Baruch Stein holds a BA in Political Science from Penn State University, with minors in Middle Eastern Studies and Jewish Studies. He has experience volunteering for political campaigns, and political advocacy organizations in both Israel and the United States. Born and raised in Pennsylvania he has now been living in Jerusalem for more than eleven years.