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Golda Meir would agree with Netanyahu on this one
There are many issues worth having an argument over; then again, some are better left alone. For example, a debate about whether or not the actress who is hired to play Golda Meir in...
NGOs front and center in the battle over reforming Israel’s legal system
Much-needed reform that will correct an overreaching Supreme Court, and thereby make Israel more democratic, or a threat to the democratic values of the state that will destroy the political system’s checks and balances?
That...
Jewish classical education master’s to debut in fall
The Tikvah Fund and the University of Dallas have teamed up on a master’s degree in humanities with a concentration in Jewish classical education. The program, of Tikvah’s Lobel Center for Jewish Classical Education, is designed...
NY Times story on Orthodox school finances ‘misleading,’ says school official
The superintendent of the Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District in New York is responding to allegations in a New York Times report on Monday that it misused funds the town allotted for the public-school system...
Three more judicial reform bills pass first reading in Knesset
Three draft laws related to the government’s judicial reform program passed their first reading in the Knesset plenum on Wednesday.
The first, coined “Deri Law 2.0,” passed by a vote of 62-53. It would prevent...
Iranian FM: IAEA officials to travel to Tehran ‘in coming days’
International Atomic Energy Agency officials will visit Tehran in the near future, Iran’s top diplomat said on Wednesday, after the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s inspectors last week detected uranium enriched to 84% purity in the Islamic Republic.
“In...
American Jews viciously targeted across the country
A recent series of violent attacks against the American Jewish community shows that the increasing fear felt by Jews in the United States is a real and present danger.
An Asian American man shot two Jewish worshippers...
Levin hints at firing AG, but says current focus is passing judicial reforms
Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin suggested on Tuesday that he could in the future fire Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, but said that for now, his focus was on passing the government’s judicial reform proposal.
During...
Netanyahu: With no credible military threat, Iran will become a nuclear power
History has shown that in the absence of a credible military threat or actual military action, Iran will become a nuclear power, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Tuesday night.
Netanyahu made the remarks...
Israel’s democracy is just fine
n a recent column, historian Gil Troy wrote, “Caricaturing the Israeli government as worse than it is, and Israeli democracy as more fragile than it is, is a gift to the bash-Israel-firsters in the...