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Richard Diamond

Jun 6, 2026, 12:17 AM

The Protestant’s warning to Israel

What Intra-Jewish Fragmentation Has in Common with the Wars That Nearly Destroyed Western Civilization — and the One Solution That Worked Israel does not have a conflict between Judaism and the state. It has a conflict between competing Judaisms over...

May 19, 2026, 7:08 PM

The US Constitution Does Not Follow You to Israel

When words cross borders, responsibility must follow them (Rafael Nir, Unsplash).

American Jews often forget that the First Amendment is not a foreign policy or a global eruv. One of the stranger habits of American Jewish life is the assumption that the United States Constitution follows American Jews wherever they go...

May 14, 2026, 6:12 AM

Israel Reborn: The Day History Turned a Page

On May 14, 1948, in a modest hall in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion stood before a tense audience and proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. In that moment, a dream nurtured for two millennia...

Norman L. Cantor

May 12, 2026, 12:12 AM

Israel’s Struggle to Maintain Religious Pluralism

Israel's founders aspired – as proclaimed in Israel's declaration of independence – to a Jewish ingathering while assuring freedom of religion and conscience to all inhabitants. How would those mostly secular founders regard current efforts of an ultra-religious bloc...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

May 1, 2026, 7:06 AM

Israel and the World: Radical Conservatism vs. Static Liberalism

Do you consider yourself a conservative? Or perhaps a liberal? In either case, think again – you’ve probably got it wrong. Israel seems to be going along with numerous other democratic countries in rendering our classic ideologies topsy-turvy. Whether this...

Richard Diamond

Mar 31, 2026, 8:13 PM

Israel Doesn’t Have One Purpose. It Has Five. That’s the Problem.

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The fracture in Israeli society is not a failure of leadership or civility. It's a war between four incompatible visions of what this country is actually for — held together by one thing, and increasingly nothing else. Every country has...

Mar 14, 2026, 12:00 PM

After October 7, Israel Needs Competent Government — Not Endless Political War

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett attends the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 17, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Security Requires Leadership, Accountability and National Renewal

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Feb 11, 2026, 12:03 PM

When Democracies Dismantle Themselves

Israel’s Democratic Backsliding in an International Context On 28 January, the First Liberal Congress opened in Tel Aviv. Organised by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel at the Tel Aviv Expo, the conference focused on the future of Israeli...

Feb 10, 2026, 6:58 PM

How to cook a lobster: The slow boil of judicial authority in Israel

To cook a lobster without resistance, one simply places it in cold water and heats it very gradually, so that it does not perceive the danger until it is too late. Michel Gurfinkiel chose this image¹ to describe the situation...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jan 16, 2026, 12:43 PM

Wrecking the Country from the Inside

What’s more dangerous for a country’s future: external attack or internal revolution? As a political scientist, I am not aware of any scholar who actually performed a “head count” regarding this question, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the...

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