Iran Built a Facility to Develop Nuclear Weapons and Hid It from Inspectors during Negotiations with the West
The Shahid Mahalatti “pilot plant.”
April 13, 2020
How Ultra-Orthodox Attitudes toward the Israeli State and the Duties of Citizenship Shaped the Response to the Coronavirus
Public-health measures or religious repression?
In both Israel and the U.S., ḥaredi communities have been among those hit hardest by the current pandemic. Large and often multigenerational families, intense communal life, and high population density partly explain this fact, but so does the slowness of leaders to shut down schools and synagogues and discourage weddings and other public gatherings. The results have provoked resentment from outsiders, but also anger from within.
April 13, 2020
Why the Israeli President Denied Benny Gantz’s Request for More Time to Form a Government
By taking away both sides’ chance to stall, Reuven Rivlin may have prevented a fourth election.
How Ultra-Orthodox Attitudes toward the Israeli State and the Duties of Citizenship Shaped the Response to the Coronavirus
Public-health measures or religious repression?
In America and Israel, the Story of Soviet Jewry Is Being Rapidly Forgotten
The struggle for Jewish dignity that once sparked Jewish pride in millions is slipping from memory.
A New Book Reveals Some Forgotten, but Remarkable, American Jewish Women
From Barbadian slave to respected member of New York’s Jewish elite.