Equality in Law, Inequality in Practice: Palestinian Citizens of Israel Abstract This essay examines the paradox of equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel—those living within the state’s 1948 borders. While Israel’s legal framework…
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Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel — Part I
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Israel: A Democracy Like No Other in the Middle East
Israel: A Democracy Like No Other in the Middle East When Israel was reborn in 1948, many predicted it would not survive. Surrounded by hostile Arab states, attacked from all sides, and burdened with absorbing hundreds of thousands of refugees,…
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Involvement of UN, an enemy of Jewish state, may bring new challenges to Israel.
Involvement of the United Nations, an enemy of the Jewish state, may bring new challenges to Israel. Trump should see it as a moral obligation to take on the role of the defender of Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East region, during the…
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Acceptance Test
Dr Shakshuka, Forgiveness, and the Jewish Search for Belonging In my ongoing reflections on faith, desistance, and belonging, I’ve found that redemption stories often appear where we least expect them. This time, it came as a restaurant…
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Shifting Sands
Whatever may happen to the state of American democracy, a Democratic or a Republican administration might abandon the deference to Israeli fears which have largely governed American policy since 1967. Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Why Don’t We All Just Go?
Why don’t we all just go? Not a few hundred idealists or retirees, not the ones between jobs or on gap year visas, but all of us—American Jews, nearly half the world’s Jewish population. Pack up, say thank you to America for the chapter it…
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The Lost Boys Right: How Disconnected Young Men Are Rebirthing an Ancient Hate
Something dark is stirring among the young men of the West. They are intelligent, online, and angry, and the first generation to inherit both limitless information and limitless disillusionment. They scroll through irony and grievance until those…
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Hebron, Sovereignty, and the Divine Reset
This Week’s Parsha Debunks the Lie “And Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver… four hundred shekels of silver, accepted by merchants. So the field of Ephron in Machpelah… and the cave within it were established to Abraham as a…
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Palestine: From an Inclusive Geographic Term to an Exclusively Arab National Designation
HISTORY MATTERS BECAUSE FACTS MATTER Palestine: From an Inclusive Geographic Term to an Exclusively Arab National Designation The term “Palestinian” underwent a gradual but far-reaching transformation from an inclusive geographic designation to…
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A Comeback Story
Last Sunday, I ran in Yad Leah’s Dash for Dignity 5K charity run. The organization provides clothing to Israeli families in need. The community-wide event featured families and dogs of all ages. It also had music, raffles and two hype guys. But…
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