Ideas

Meir Shalev and Yehonatan Geffen were Israeli cultural royalty. Their deaths leave a hole on the left.

The novelist and the songwriter, both shaped by their youths in the same pioneering community, died within days of each other.

By Gilad Halpern May 2, 2023 5:53 pm

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Why a liberal Zionist rabbi isn’t taking to the streets over Israel’s judicial reform plan

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch has spoken out against the current government, but says there are limits to Diaspora criticism of the Jewish state.

April 30, 2023 6:45 am

Ideas

Multiple efforts in Jewish sovereignty have self-destructed after 75 years. Can Israel defy history — again?

Israel triumphed over external threats. Two scholars ask if it can survive its internal divides.

April 24, 2023 7:58 pm

Ideas

As Israel turns 75, we should celebrate by fighting for it to live up to its ideals

By Rabbi Jill Jacobs April 21, 2023 10:30 am

Ideas

Torah is the anti-ChatGPT. But we can embrace artificial intelligence without losing our soul.

By Rabbi Samantha Natov April 19, 2023 2:50 pm

Ideas

Can a Holocaust documentary have a happy ending? Should it?

By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 16, 2023 6:45 am

Ideas

For theatergoers at Broadway’s recent spate of Jewish shows, attendance is a form of witness

By Laura Yares April 13, 2023 10:00 am

Ideas

I can’t forget what the Nazis did to my family, but I can be grateful to a repentant Germany

By Rabbi Michael Meyerstein April 12, 2023 10:00 am

Ideas

‘Two Israels’: What’s really behind the judicial reform protests

By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 9, 2023 6:45 am

Ideas

Judaism doesn’t want you to wander and live just anywhere — or does it?

By Ben Harris April 4, 2023 12:00 pm

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Meir Shalev and Yehonatan Geffen were Israeli cultural royalty. Their deaths leave a hole on the left.

Why a liberal Zionist rabbi isn’t taking to the streets over Israel’s judicial reform plan

Multiple efforts in Jewish sovereignty have self-destructed after 75 years. Can Israel defy history — again?

As Israel turns 75, we should celebrate by fighting for it to live up to its ideals

Torah is the anti-ChatGPT. But we can embrace artificial intelligence without losing our soul.

Can a Holocaust documentary have a happy ending? Should it?

For theatergoers at Broadway’s recent spate of Jewish shows, attendance is a form of witness

I can’t forget what the Nazis did to my family, but I can be grateful to a repentant Germany

‘Two Israels’: What’s really behind the judicial reform protests

Judaism doesn’t want you to wander and live just anywhere — or does it?

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