Is Israel’s Military Ready for Future Challenges?
Its priorities still reflect what exists today.
July 9, 2018
The Past and Future of Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Community
Change is afoot, but its direction is uncertain.
Totally unexpected at the time of the Jewish state’s founding was the demographic growth and flourishing of the Ḥaredim. Nearly a third of Israeli first-graders now attend ultra-Orthodox schools. In conversation with Jonathan Silver, Yehoshua Pfeffer—himself a ḥaredi rabbi—explains this community’s evolution, recent internal changes, the challenges it now faces, and the ways in which he hopes it will continue to change in coming years. (Audio, 28 minutes. Options for download and streaming are available at the link below.)
July 9, 2018
Israel and Australia Join the U.S. in Punishing the Palestinian Authority for Rewarding Terror
The Taylor Force Act and its new equivalents.
The Past and Future of Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Community
Change is afoot, but its direction is uncertain.
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Speech to Jewish Communists about the Warsaw Ghetto
And the priestly blessing.
What the Afghan Genizah Reveals about Persian and Central Asian Jewry
Jews of the Silk Road.