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Sep 30, 2026, 12:24 AM

What the Sukkah Knows That the Safe Room Doesn’t

A sukkah beside a reinforced safe room. AI-generated photorealistic illustration.

This Sukkot, two shelters stand side by side in countless Israeli homes. One has reinforced concrete walls, a steel door, and a window designed to seal from within. The other has flimsy walls and a roof of branches through...

Sep 22, 2026, 6:39 PM

‘Their Place Is Not With Us’? Citizenship Is Not a Reward

“Hit them in their pockets and in their citizenship,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week, announcing two proposed laws aimed at people he says defame Israeli soldiers abroad. One would dramatically increase damages in defamation cases. The other...

Sep 20, 2026, 5:12 PM

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The Yom Kippur lesson Israel still needs after October 7

A recording and transcription of the Agranat Commission. (Lkahan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

No inquiry can guarantee that an Israeli 'conception' won't collapse down the road, but it can turn a catastrophe into an event we learn from, and that's worth it

Sep 17, 2026, 3:41 PM

In Smotrich’s AI Video, He Doesn’t Win by Argument. He Wins by Force.

Jewish tradition treats disagreement as a value. Pirkei Avot promises that a dispute "for the sake of Heaven" will endure. This week, during the Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Religious Zionism party released...

Sep 4, 2026, 4:59 AM

Yayoi Kusama, Selfies, and Self-Obliteration

At the Yayoi Kusama retrospective, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 2015. Photo: Susanne Nilsson / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

Every image we make of ourselves seems to add something. One more selfie, one more profile, one more clip: a little more presence, a little more of us in the world. The assumption is so ordinary that it is...

Aug 30, 2026, 5:30 PM

The Cultural Freedom Dolly Parton Protected

Every performer has a cultural space around them: the people who come, who listen, who sing the songs at their own weddings. Dolly Parton, who died in Nashville on Tuesday at 80, stood at the center of one of...

Aug 24, 2026, 6:09 PM

Netanyahu Didn’t Just Attend a Concert. He Borrowed a Public.

Politicians have always looked for places where politics does not look like politics. They are photographed at diners and county fairs, walking through the shuk, buying falafel. The setting varies and the purpose does not. A politician usually seen...

Aug 18, 2026, 6:17 PM

West Bank Outposts Are More Than an Enforcement Failure

Over the past week, Israeli settlers built an illegal outpost beside Palestinian homes in Qusra and blocked the families’ access to them. The first attempt to clear the outpost failed, and after clashes with settler activists who converged on...

Aug 16, 2026, 4:50 PM

The Only Man Not in the Room

When a casualty notification officer knocks on a door in Israel and tells parents that their son has been killed, she now tells them one thing more: that his sperm can be retrieved and that there are only hours...

Aug 7, 2026, 7:33 PM

What Are Memorials For? A Shirt at Mauthausen

In early August, at the Mauthausen memorial in Austria, a young Jewish woman confronted a touring school group. One student wore a “Free Palestine” shirt, while some of his teachers and peers told her that Israel is committing genocide...

About Me

Sagit Alkobi Fishman is a PhD candidate and President's Fellow at Bar-Ilan University's School of Communication, as well as a visual artist working across digital media. Her research explores how narratives emerge on digital platforms and in collaborative environments, shaping public discourse. She draws on an interdisciplinary academic foundation, holding a BA in computer science from the Technion, followed by two graduate degrees, both summa cum laude: an MA in philosophy and digital culture from Tel Aviv University and an MDes in visual and social design from Holon Institute of Technology.