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IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Israelonomics: an interview with Avi Weiss
By Avi Weiss
Professor Avi Weiss is the former Chief Economist and Deputy Director of the Israel Antitrust Authority and now...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | The growing power of the 'independent' ultra-Orthodox voter
By Gilad Malach
Dr. Gilad Malach is head of the ultra-Orthodox program at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem. In a...
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March 2019
Feminism in Israel | 'Religious women in the IDF increasingly won’t let religious authorities tell them what to do': an...
By Rachel Tevet-Vizel
Rachel Tevet Vizel was ‘gender advisor’ to the IDF Chief of Staff from 2011 to 2017,a period that...
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February 2018
Feminism in Israel | Feminism and Jewish-Palestinian Solidarity can make another Israel possible: an interview with Fida Nara and Sarit...
By Fida Nara and Sarit Larry
Mahapach-Taghir is a grassroots, feminist, Jewish-Arab organisation that works for social change through education and empowerment in marginalised communities...
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February 2018
Feminism in Israel | Gender equality and the status of women in Israel: an interview with MK Aliza Lavie
By Aliza Lavie
Aliza Lavie is a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid and a senior lecturer at the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University....
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February 2018
‘People didn’t dream there would be Haredim’: an interview with Rabbi Menahem Shemtov and Rebbetzin Shoshana Shemtov
By Rabbi Menahem Shemtov and Rebbetzin Shoshana Shemtov
Rabbi Menahem Shemtov is the chairman of the Rabbis Committee for Inter-Religious Dialogue formally on behalf of the...
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Autumn 2016
Book Review: The Invention of the Land of Israel
By Israel Bartal
Shlomo Sand’s political treatise, The Invention of the Land of Israel, is another link in his larger project...
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Autumn 2013
Restoring our glorious tradition
By Dov Lipman
The growing size of the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) population, and its self-imposed isolation from the worlds of military service...
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Autumn 2013
Women, the Wall and the Struggle for Jewish Pluralism in Israel
By Noa Sattath
Women of the Wall has been challenging Orthodox religious authorities for over 25 years by praying at the...
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Autumn 2013
Films of faith
By Yair Raveh
2012 will be remembered as the year in which Israeli movies finally found God. It's not often a...
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Winter 2013
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Progressive except for Jews (PEJs): The Australian Greens and the 7 October Hamas Death Squad Massacre
By Philip Mendes
Book Review | Forgotten Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials
By Alex Stein
The Holocaust and Inherited Memory: How we Remember in the 21st Century
By Oliver Sears
Antisemitic Terrorism and Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany
By Martin Jander
From Johns Hopkins to Beirut, and from Beirut to Columbia: a history of the ‘settler colonialism’ charge
By Daniel Szeftel
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