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Richard Diamond

Jun 24, 2026, 8:54 PM

The Deterioration of American Jewry’s Unconditional Solidarity with Israel

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The Grief of Estrangement There is a particular kind of grief that has no clean name — the grief of loving something so completely that you never thought to examine the conditions of that love, until the day you realize...

Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein

Jun 23, 2026, 6:41 PM

The Unfinished Journey of Secular Israel

These days, Israeli liberals look around them with profound despair. Values that stood at the heart of Israeli society only a few decades ago are now under fierce attack. Far-right religious Israelis ridicule them, the current destructive government seeks...

Chava (Patricia) Kadoche

Jun 22, 2026, 11:57 PM

Not Everything Is Black and White

Over the past few weeks, I have found myself thinking about the growing tensions between different segments of Israeli society, particularly between the Haredi and Hiloni communities. The louder the debate becomes, the easier it is to view people as...

Jun 15, 2026, 11:12 AM

5 Reasons I Love the Rivon Harevii

Rivon Harevii ("The Fourth Quarter"), the grassroots movement dedicated (in my own words) to taking the sting out of Israel’s public discourse, announced a decision last night to run as a political party in the upcoming elections. I'm deeply...

Jun 14, 2026, 5:05 PM

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We need Trumpian negotiations – say, open streets for cash flow and we'll address army service later. But only if you accept that you too are Israeli citizens

Jun 14, 2026, 2:58 PM

A reckoning for the Reform movement

Campaigners for and against a BDS referendum at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, New York City, May 26, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

The balance of universalism with the particularism of religious thought and Zionism is Judaism's distinctive genius. Stripping away those Jewish parts spells disaster

Jun 11, 2026, 1:18 PM

The Sultan’s Algorithm

Turkey and Transnational Illiberalism. AI Illustration. (Credit: ChatGPT)

Turkey, Transnational Illiberalism, and the Poverty of Our Political Vocabulary There is a particular kind of danger that arrives not as an army but as a narrative, one that does not breach a border so much as dissolve the very...

Tobey Finkelstein

Jun 11, 2026, 12:26 PM

If only just a few Haredim were calling police ‘Nazis’ and women ‘shiksas’

Haredi protesters attempt to block traffic on a road in Beit Shemesh during a demonstration on June 9, 2026. (Israel Police)

Ultra-Orthodox rioters are no longer fringe extremists: I watched local teens block cars and my Haredi neighbors cheer them on – as the police did nothing

Elchanan Poupko

Jun 9, 2026, 6:51 PM

Settler violence is reshaping religious Zionism

As Kahanist ideas gain ground, religious Zionism's failure to confront settler violence is endangering both Israel's future and the movement's soul

Jun 3, 2026, 11:00 AM

… and how Naftali Bennett made me politically homeless

... and probably hundreds of thousands of other voters too.... Having written yesterday about one of the multiple problems that deters me from voting for the parties of Israel's current governing coalition, I write today to complain how Naftali Bennett...

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