Don’t Expect the Jerusalem Summit to Drive a Wedge between Russia and Iran
No agreement is better than a bad deal that boosts Moscow’s prestige at the expense of regional security.
June 14, 2019
Could Infighting and Ideological Rigidity Undermine the Israeli Right?
The lessons of 1988.
In a political climate where Israel’s left is relatively weak and the Likud’s major electoral competitor is the centrist Blue-and-White party, Benjamin Netanyahu found himself unable to form a government because he could not get one of the smaller right-wing parties to join his coalition—forcing a second round of elections in September. Such factional squabbles, argues Akiva Bigman, led to the defeat of the right in 1988, when hard-right splinter parties (none of which endured) broke from Yitzḥak Shamir’s Likud after he decided to form a national-unity government with Labor:
June 14, 2019
Could Infighting and Ideological Rigidity Undermine the Israeli Right?
The lessons of 1988.
Is European-Style Anti-Semitism Making Its Way to the United States?
“If you call yourself an anti-Semite, they run you out of town; if you call yourself an anti-Zionist, you get tenure.”
For American Jews of a Bygone Era, May and June Were Confirmation Season
High on flowers, low on tradition.
Oberlin College Must Now Foot the Bill for Its Feckless Political Radicalism
A jury rules in favor of the bakery that school administrators tried to drive out of business.