Evelyn Gordon is a commentator and former legal-affairs reporter who immigrated to Israel in 1987. In addition to Mosaic, she has published in the Jerusalem Post, Azure, Commentary, and elsewhere. She blogs at Evelyn Gordon.
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I was delighted to read Rafi DeMogge’s essay arguing that territorial withdrawals harm rather than help Israel’s international image, since I have been making this argument for over fifteen years, mos...
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I agreed with almost every word of Shany Mor’s essay , which was characteristically insightful and enlightening. Nevertheless, I think it suffered from a fatal flaw, because it is pointless to blame...
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I can confidently answer the main question posed by Scott Abramson in his informative essay on state commissions of inquiry. Yes, such a commission will be formed to investigate the Hamas attack on Oc...
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Much remains unknown about Saturday’s horrific attack on southern Israel—the worst in Israel’s history, including wars, in terms of the number of civilians killed and kidnapped. But some things are al...
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Many thanks to Neil Rogachevsky and Netta Barak-Corren for their thoughtful responses to my essay. Barak-Corren addressed the issue of judicial reform more directly, but let me begin with a brief co...
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Israel's court is abnormally powerful and has caused half the nation to lose faith in its government. Reform will help, as long as it doesn't cause the other half to do the same.
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Kudos to Daniel Kane for thoroughly explaining a fact that too many people, especially overseas, ignore: the settlement movement is far from being monolithic. He does an excellent job of delineating...
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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If there’s one thing the recent war with Hamas made clear, it’s that Israel’s strategy for dealing with the Gaza Strip, known as “mowing the grass,” may be approaching its expiration date. And that wi...
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Israel’s current political crisis exemplifies the maxim that hard cases make bad law. This case is desperate. Six months after the coronavirus erupted and nine months after the fiscal year began, Isra...
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Like Haviv Rettig Gur in “ How and Why Israelis Vote ,” I, too, think the advantages of Israel’s parliamentary system outweigh its disadvantages, and for essentially the same reason: because it keeps...
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In his essay “Why Many American Jews are Becoming Indifferent or Even Hostile to Israel,” Daniel Gordis lists, as key sources of tension, four major differences between the American and the Israeli...
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Many thanks to Haviv Rettig Gur and Jeremy Rabkin for their thoughtful responses to my essay, “ Disorder in the Court .” Both make valuable points. If I begin with and focus the major part of my c...
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How Israel's supreme court has effected its own constitutional revolution—and thereby undermined public confidence in the rule of law.
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Many thanks to Elliott Abrams and Amnon Lord for their thoughtful responses to my essay. Drawing on his own extensive experience, Abrams aptly highlights how the endless pursuit of an unattainable Isr...
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For two decades the Jewish state has sought, fruitlessly, to negotiate an end to the conflict. Needed is a new, viable strategy for coping with reality and winning out.
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“Worried and Happy”: that was the title on the advance copy of Edward Grossman’s essay sent to me by Mosaic ’s editors. Reading it, however, I couldn’t help feeling that for Grossman, Israel’s curren...
