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Alexander Lutsenko

Jul 9, 2026, 2:06 PM

Ukraine Proposed That Israel Join Compensation Framework for Russian Aggression

Ukraine Proposed That Israel Join Compensation Framework for Russian Aggression. The image was created using AI.

There are diplomatic visits that pass quietly, leaving behind only protocol photographs and polite statements. And there are visits that raise a larger question: what kind of relationship is actually possible between two countries that both know what it means...

Jul 6, 2026, 7:21 PM

Who benefits from single-gender classes?

Women and men studying together in the Hebrew Universty in the 1950s. Credit: Benno Rothenberg /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection via Wikimedia commons

A new law would expand single-gender classes – to graduate students. I know, I know. Among all the new laws being passed with the expressed aim of dismantling our democracy, this law seems tame. It gives institutes of higher...

Jul 6, 2026, 6:19 PM

Freedom of Speech Deep in the Soul

As I perused – occasionally with wonder – the Israeli media’s plethora of analyses about the US as it celebrated 250 years of independence, I was thrust back decades to my NYC childhood. It was there, at the public...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jul 6, 2026, 3:36 PM

Netanyahu’s Concrete State

Netanyahu’s Concrete State: How Israel Learns to Live With Impunity Benjamin Netanyahu’s political survival has required more than coalition discipline, media warfare, or ordinary electoral strategy. It has required something deeper: a change in the physics of Israeli statehood. The state...

Lawrence A Frazin

Jul 1, 2026, 7:59 AM

Whatever Happened to Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum?

By Boris Carmi /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=113820434

As an American voting in a two-party system, it is difficult to understand the political voting process of Israel. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum were fictional twins from, “Through the Looking Glass” who had slight differences but were almost...

Jun 20, 2026, 2:53 PM

Teaching in June and the Future of Education

The conference is about to begin, my photo

There is a common saying in Israel that after Pesach, the school year is essentially over, so by June there is not much school anymore. That was also the reason I never liked teaching during the second semester when...

Jun 10, 2026, 8:38 PM

For Life Do Us Part

Whilst the annual reading of the impropriety of Korach and his followers never gets any easier to understand, there seems to be an unsettling familiarity with his actions. Rashi on the curious phrase used to introduce the narrative, Vayikach...

Jun 9, 2026, 3:11 PM

When hands speak louder than politics

Shirley Pinto is applauded in sign language by members of parliament during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, on July 12, 2021. (Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

The Knesset's recognition of Israeli Sign Language is a historic victory for human dignity – and for leaders who can transcend partisan battles

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jun 6, 2026, 10:45 AM

Israel’s Double Reclassification

The most dangerous political events do not always announce themselves as ruptures. Sometimes the rupture is hidden inside continuity. The flag remains in place, the offices remain open, the parliamentary procedures continue, the alliance is reaffirmed, and the language...

May 27, 2026, 4:04 PM

Elections are Coming. They Must Be Free and Fair.

The first preliminary bill to dissolve the Knesset ahead of looming elections passed yesterday. The announcement, while both expected and anxiously awaited, comes at an extremely difficult moment in Israeli history. The outcome will undoubtedly shape how millions of...

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