The Possible Death of Mohammad Deif, and What It Means
Terrorist groups are more than the sum of their leaders.
July 16, 2024
To Conscript Haredim, the IDF Will Have to Make Some Compromises
But the enlistees will have to make bigger ones.
In the coming weeks, the IDF plans to begin drafting Haredim of eligible age. Meanwhile, haredi rabbis and political leaders continue to insist that they oppose enlistment under any circumstance. Tamir Granot, a religious Zionist rabbi and the head of a yeshiva—whose own son was killed in action on October 15, 2023—reflects with sensitivity on the distance that separates him from his haredi coreligionists, with whom he shares so much. Granot, on the one hand, has little sympathy for the arguments against conscription:
July 16, 2024
To Conscript Haredim, the IDF Will Have to Make Some Compromises
But the enlistees will have to make bigger ones.
The Man Who Foresaw the Rise of German Anti-Semitism
And how he became a reluctant Zionist.
How an Orthodox Leader’s Postcard Became a Symbol of Jewish Women’s Education
Is that a kaftan or a kimono?
Rabbis against the Theater
And ancient Judaism’s greatest playwright.