Palestinians, Not Israeli Police, Are Desecrating al-Aqsa Mosque
Those who wear shoes to a mosque don’t come to pray.
April 18, 2022
The “New Haredim” Return to Israeli Television Screens
Shababnikim.
Unlike the Israeli drama Shtisel, which achieved success with its realist portray of the life of a ḥaredi family, the newer series Shababnikim strikes a more lighthearted tone, and focuses on four young men who can’t quite make it as yeshiva students, and are eager to engage with the outside world even if they have no intention of breaking with their communities. Sarah Rindner reviews the second season, and its portrayal of those Israeli media have dubbed “the new Ḥaredim.”
April 18, 2022
How Germany’s Anti-Semitism Commissioners Encourage Anti-Semitism
Too interested in looking for “scientific connections” between anti-Semitism and decarbonization.
Why Jewish Observance Would Suffer Were Daylight Savings Time Made Permanent
A bill before Congress would make communal morning prayer more difficult.
The Paradoxes of Ukrainian Jewish History
How a country broke dramatically from its long history of anti-Semitism.
The “New Haredim” Return to Israeli Television Screens
Shababnikim.