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Sharona Margolin Halickman

Sep 20, 2023, 9:17 PM

Is God mentioned in the Megillat HaAtzmaut?

The Megillat HaAtzmaut, Israel’s Declaration of Independence has become very popular in Israel lately. It was read by many communities on Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day) this year and even distributed free in the newspaper. Some believe that the...

Sep 19, 2023, 1:51 PM

Is there only one religious Zionism?

In early 2021, a relatively fringe group of Jewish nationalists went ahead and did perhaps the most brilliant political rebranding act in Israel’s history. They called themselves The Religious Zionist Party. The new name implied many things. Firstly, the...

Aug 30, 2023, 7:08 PM

Religious Zionists are destroying themselves

Yair Ettinger’s “Frayed, The Disputes Unraveling Religious Zionists” is eye-opening. He is revealing a dangerous situation that many people do not know exists. And those who know don’t know how to resolve the problem. The religious Zionist movement today...

Aug 28, 2023, 11:53 AM

Idiocy of this government Part II: If there is no wisdom, there is no fear of G-d…

In Talmud, Tractate Tamid 32 identifies wisdom with understanding the consequences of one's actions (In Pirkei Avot 3, Rabbi Shimon ben Netanel identifies this as the 'good path'.) Drawing on a similar message in Proverbs, a large chunk of Tractate...

Jul 30, 2023, 7:06 AM

The Knesset’s Pyrrhic victory

Coalition lawmakers take a celebratory selfie in the Knesset plenum, as they pass the first of the judicial overhaul laws, July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The desire to subjugate the other side threatens the Jewish homeland; now, everyone must set aside being right in favor of peace

Rebecca Bardach

Jul 7, 2023, 1:40 PM

Civic Zionism is the antidote to supremacist Zionism

“That home that built here still stands by virtue of force, but, ironically, that home can no longer keep us safe through force,” writes Shuli Dichter in his recently published book Sharing the Promised Land: In Pursuit of...

Jun 13, 2023, 3:40 PM

Charedi Home Guard – a potential solution to the military service issue

Many non-Charedi Israelis these days seem to be outraged with Charedim on various fronts. My previous blogpost addressed one of the major sources of grievance - that, according to these grievances, Charedi education does not sufficiently prepare Charedim to make...

May 30, 2023, 9:01 AM

Missing the point of Bikkurim

Children Participating in a Play at a Shavuot Celebration, Tel Aviv, 1970

I think that learning about how non-Orthodox Jewish movements observe the Jewish holidays – societally, ideologically and practically, is quite interesting and enlightening. Learning about what others do and think is instructive in terms of my self-definition and my...

May 19, 2023, 1:27 PM

R. Aharon Lichtenstein’s Ever Relevant Message for Yom Yerushalayim

Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l and Rav Yehuda Amital zt"l used Yom Haatzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim as opportunities to demonstrate gratitude, to provide introspection, and to dream for the future during these important holidays. Their talks are now printed in B'shuvecha...

Elchanan Poupko

Apr 24, 2023, 7:38 AM

A letter to Israel’s demographically intoxicated

You're right. You do have many children – more than anyone else in Israel. But guess who has even more children

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