Category Archives: Israel

Haaretz: A Screenwriter, a Hasidic Mother of Seven, and a Sex Poet

From Haaretz: Marilyn Wennig, 36, uniquely combines the two estranged worlds of an ultra-Orthodox lifestyle with secular Israeli film and literature. A day after Marilyn Wennig was interviewed on Channel 2’s late night news show about the Oscars, she asked … Continue reading

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Will Israel Survive Going Haredi?

From Ruth Marcus in 2012: “We’re verging on a trajectory of Israel slipping toward a third-world economy, and a third-world economy can’t sustain a first-world military,” says Yohanan Plesner, a Kadima member who chaired a committee to rewrite the exemption. … Continue reading

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Young Non-Orthodox Jews Tend To Have A More Distant Relationship To Israel

Bernie Sanders, the one Jew running for President, seems to have the most distant relationship to Israel of any of the main contenders. Jared Sichel writes for the Jewish Journal: On April 12, Simone Zimmerman, a Los Angeles Jewish day … Continue reading

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Israel’s Pro-Black Migrant Protest

From 2015: Israel’s Ethiopian Jews clash with police at race rally Dozens injured during anti-racism rally in Tel Aviv sparked by brutality against a black soldier. Israeli riot police have fired stun grenades and water cannon on thousands of ethnic … Continue reading

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Israel vs America

In many ways, Israel is a much healthier and more serious nation than the United States. Israel has a serious wall to stop illegal immigrants, America does not. Israel is run for the benefit of its majority population — Jews, … Continue reading

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