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Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Oct 9, 2026, 1:31 AM

Israel’s Election Decision: Continue With Its Populist Paradox?

Although many people think that Israel is an unusual democracy, its evolution over the past few years has shown it following a path pioneered by several others. In a word (actually two), moving towards “illiberal democracy” in which formal...

Paul Mendlowitz

Oct 8, 2026, 4:07 PM

To The Supporters Of Full-Time Torah Study: You Are Being Scammed!

To the well-intentioned supporters of Full-Time Torah study, consider what you are actually being asked to finance. You are not merely being asked to support Torah learning. You are being asked to sustain an entire economic and educational system,...

Oct 8, 2026, 3:38 PM

Oct. 8 should be a day of reckoning

Wikimedia commons, 2014

On October 8, 2023, we were barely beginning to process the dimensions of the catastrophe. Details were still coming out. We heard the breathless retelling of how young people at a party ran and hid from bloodthirsty killers for...

Oct 8, 2026, 3:12 PM

The Haredi Bargain

Reflections on what the Haredim bring to Israel and what they demand in return

Oct 8, 2026, 10:45 AM

The Right to Lead

Three years have passed since the worst day in Israel’s history—and the worst for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. I honestly believed that October 7, and the three years of war that followed, would be different from the other...

Oct 8, 2026, 10:42 AM

The Entitlement Trap

This is a four-part series about narcissism in a variety of its permutations. It describes a problem, almost as ancient as Judaism, and still important today. Part Two investigates how rationalized comforts can quickly transform into a sense of...

Michael Zoosman

Oct 8, 2026, 3:51 AM

Distribution of Noose-Themed Pins in School Dishonors October 7th Anniversary

The thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” from across Israel, the United States, and the world join Herzliya Mayor Yariv Fisher in condemning Otzma Yehudit in the wake of a disgusting display in which a...

Gabriel Strenger

Oct 8, 2026, 1:14 AM

Why I Consider Voting for a Haredi Party This Time

Over the past few weeks, I have spoken with quite a few Haredim — both Lithuanian and Hasidic, from a variety of communities and backgrounds — about HaTzibbur HaHaredi, the new Haredi Public Party headed by Moti Leitner. I noticed...

Oct 7, 2026, 8:27 PM

Congratulations, you survived the war. Your reward is an election

An imagined Israeli receipt tallies three years of reserve duty, displacement, rocket alerts, grief, volunteering and resilience (ChatGPT, 7-10-26).

For three years, Israel asked its citizens to be resilient. On October 27, they get to ask what for

Oct 7, 2026, 3:53 PM

We are still waiting for someone to say: We failed you

Shlomi and Deborah (Shahar) Matias (Courtesy)

My sister and brother-in-law were murdered on October 7. Their children survived. No government representative has ever come to look us in the eye and take responsibility

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