When It Comes to Peace with Israel, Many Saudis Have Religious Concerns
Popular priorities don’t match the diplomatic conversation.
September 22, 2023
The Israeli Right Seems to Be Pointing toward a New Way of Avoiding Constitutional Crisis
Changing rhetoric about checks, balances, and judicial reform.
In a recent speech, Simcha Rothman—a Religious Zionist-party parliamentarian and one of the major proponents of reforming the Jewish state’s judiciary—posed the question on which the country’s political future now turns. Now that the Knesset has passed a law curbing one of the Supreme Court’s powers, how can the court pass impartial judgment on that law’s constitutionality, a task it has recently taken up? Haviv Rettig Gur analyzes the speech, and observes a new approach emerging in Israel’s public conversation:
September 22, 2023
UNESCO Can’t Admit a Biblical City’s Connection to Jewish History
Jericho is now a world heritage site in the “state of Palestine.”
The Israeli Right Seems to Be Pointing toward a New Way of Avoiding Constitutional Crisis
Changing rhetoric about checks, balances, and judicial reform.
Reports of the Death of the Synagogue Have Been Highly Exaggerated
But the problems are real, and need new solutions.
A High Holiday Prayerbook Dedicated to an American Jewish Soldier in Dutch
David Meyer Wald, of blessed memory.