How Judaism Protects, Rather than Hinders, Israeli Democracy
As several great thinkers have observed, religion encourages a positive civic culture.
March 23, 2015
How Judaism Protects, Rather than Hinders, Israeli Democracy
As several great thinkers have observed, religion encourages a positive civic culture.
The proposed bill to declare Israel “the nation-state of the Jewish people,” put before the Knesset last fall, engendered much discussion about the need to reconcile Israel’s democracy with its Jewish character, as if Judaism and democracy were fundamentally at odds. They are not, argues Joel Fishman:
March 23, 2015
The Election That Didn’t Happen Matters More than the One That Did
Congratulations to Mahmoud Abbas on the eleventh year of his four-year term!
Saul Bellow: Jewish in the Gut
His “sense of Judaism, or rather Jewishness, was visceral, not intellectual.”
A 17th-Century Hebrew Bible’s Journey from Germany to Haifa, via Egypt
A secret 1977 trip to Cairo is involved.
Iran Can Still Be Stopped
There's good reason to believe a strike might have longer-lasting effects than many experts think.