Attempting to Restart the Peace Process Will Do More Harm Than Good
Why upend a sustainable status quo?
April 12, 2019
A New Movie Tells How Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Mizrahi Party Came to Be
The Unorthodox.
Founded in 1983, the political party known as Shas represents Ḥaredim of Mizraḥi descent, a constituency that has often experienced no small amount of prejudice from both secular and religious Ashkenazi society. Although its influence has declined somewhat from its peak in 1998, it tellingly tied for third place in the most recent election. A new Israeli film, titled The Unorthodox in English, depicts Shas’s founding by an obscure printer named Yaakov Cohen, played by the actor Shuli Rand. Sarah Rindner writes in her review:
April 12, 2019
The Recent Election Is a Nail in the Coffin of Israel’s Labor Party
It failed to answer the question that was foremost in most Israelis’ minds.
A New Movie Tells How Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Mizrahi Party Came to Be
The Unorthodox.
Idle Gossip and Judaism’s Theology of Speech
A desecration of what is most sacred.
Casual Anti-Semitism and the Orthodox Air-Traveler
Smelly Jews on the plane?