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“This is how we want to inherit the land of Israel? By spilling innocent blood?” asks one of Israel’s leading Orthodox rabbis...
4+ day, 58+ min ago (655+ words) As the Jewish year draws to a close—a period intended for intense, and even uncomfortable, personal and national reflection begins. With that in mind, we open with a brief snippet of a longer conversation (that appeared on Israeli social…...
“I wish that I had hope, but it’s been destroyed.” A young Israeli woman reflects on her relationships with her Israeli Arab and American Jewish peers.
5+ day, 59+ min ago (157+ words) It was around a Shabbat table a few weeks ago that today’s guest, Tamar Frank, and I got to talking. As we chatted, she shared her experiences in a program designed to build bridges between Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews,…...
What are the core Jewish values that Jews of all stripes would want to make central to their lives?
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (181+ words) Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis What are the core Jewish values that Jews of all stripes would want to make central to their lives? As Rosh Hashanah approaches, it is no exaggeration to say that the Jewish people…...
Is a different kind of Israeli religious leadership possible? Meet Rabbi Menachem Froman, z’l, and his biographer, Dr. Mordy Miller.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (220+ words) I mentioned in my column yesterday about the IDF soldiers who refused to enter an APC with a female paramedic that Israel is in desperate need of a moderate religious leadership. Was Rabbi Menachem Froman, z’l, “moderate”? That depends. But…...
“The two-state solution is totally dead,” say almost all our political parties. If that’s true, what now?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (393+ words) If you listen to the rhetoric of virtually all of Israel’s political parties—from the left (or what is left of the left) to the middle to the right, from secular to religious—you hear the refrain: “The two-state solution…...
The last fallen soldier from the Sultan Yaqoub battle finally comes home
2+ week, 6+ day ago (93+ words) Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis The last fallen soldier from the Sultan Yaqoub battle finally comes home In the midst of political intrigue as elections grow near, the very real possibility of hostilities between Turkey and Israel, Israel’s…...
Can America still be a home for the Jews, and what might the very question mean for Israel?
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (545+ words) Today, we’re sharing a video conversation that I was privileged to have with Yuval Siman Tov on the DNA of American Jewish life; that DNA, as we now know, has tragically not assured the future of American Judaism the way…...
"People who no longer live in Israel who are returning to vote have a lot of nerve."
3+ week, 3+ day ago (675+ words) Kalman Liebskind is an Israeli journalist who deserves to be better known outside Israel than he is. Several decades ago, he was one of the founding journalists at the Makor Rishon newspaper, to which we often point here in IFTI....
In just a few weeks, he could become the youngest Member of Knesset in Israel's history.
3+ week, 4+ day ago (314+ words) Walking into the Bennett headquarters in Ra’anana is exhilarating. One can favor the candidate, or not. One can plan to vote for the party, or not. But to see the energy, the optimism, the devotion to Israel and the huge…...
A ONE WAY FLIGHT is the name that Channel 11 gave to its video profile of a prominent Israeli couple who are leaving, for good.
3+ week, 5+ day ago (446+ words) The issue of emigration is becoming a hot topic in Israel. In the press — Hebrew as well as English — reports of record high emigration are rampant. Sit in cafés with friends whose kids are reservist-age, and you hear it again…...