Israel’s Everywoman at War
Ever since the 1970s, the entrances to many American Jewish institutions have boasted a single…
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Why tribes?
“We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass,” declared the just-inaugurated…
Israel’s current crisis is a necessary step in the process of state-making
There’s no time that Israeli parents and grandparents hate more than late August. Summer programs…
Essay | Remembering the Yom Kippur War in a Divided Israel
Fifty years ago this month, the Jewish state survived a surprise attack by its Arab…
Israel at the Crossroads
On this Rosh Hashanah, perhaps more than any previously, Israel stands at a crossroads. In…