Remembering Dvir Sorek, the Nineteen-Year-Old Victim of a Terror Attack in Israel
He was a boy with “light in his eyes.”
August 9, 2019
Exempting Ultra-Orthodox Israelis from Army Service Might Be the Best Way to Get Them to Enlist
A counterintuitive solution.
The Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman’s insistence on increasing the number of Ḥaredim conscripted into the IDF—and ḥaredi politicians’ refusal to accept any such proposal—left Benjamin Netanyahu unable to form a governing coalition, precipitating the upcoming do-over elections. Meanwhile, the Religious Zionist parliamentarian Naftali Bennett and the leftist Ehud Barak have both endorsed a very different alternative to the current laws that allow ḥaredi men to avoid conscription by studying in yeshivas indefinitely. Amiḥai Attali writes:
August 9, 2019
Exempting Ultra-Orthodox Israelis from Army Service Might Be the Best Way to Get Them to Enlist
A counterintuitive solution.
No, David Brooks, Jews Who Like Being Jewish and Not “Judeo-Christian” Aren’t White Supremacists
The New York Times columnist seems to think Judaism is a “dead culture.”
How Jews Kept Time During the Holocaust
Keeping an eye on the future and the past helped guard against the present.