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How Not to Teach about the Shoah
The pitfalls of Holocaust education.
Yossi Klein Halevi
Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is author of the New York Times bestseller Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, and Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, which tells the story of his involvement in the Soviet Jewry movement.
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Anti-Zionist Jews and the Limits of the Big Tent
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Arab-Jewish Coexistence Is One of Israel’s Greatest Achievements. Political Extremists Could Undo It
Itamar Ben-Gvir promises only the Lebanonization of Israel.
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How the Jewish Calendar Became the Israeli Calendar
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Watch Yossi Klein Halevi Discuss His Movie “Kaddish”
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The Case against Returning to the Iran Deal
In return for merely postponing its nuclear program, the agreement rewarded Iran extravagantly.
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How One Million Russian Immigrants Revitalized Israel
By Yossi Klein HaleviIn the summer of 1989, I left my home in Jerusalem for a reporting assignment in Europe, covering the fall of Communism from Warsaw to Berlin to Prague. A year later, I returned to a different Israel....
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Podcast: Yossi Klein Halevi on Jabotinsky 140 Years Later
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September 11, Anti-Americanism, and Anti-Semitism
In this political passion play, America and Israel assume the role of Pharisees, hypocrites who promise freedom and democracy but deliver the golden calf.
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Podcast: Yossi Klein Halevi on the Transformation of Israeli Music
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Bernie Sanders Is Not an Enemy of the Jewish People. But Neither Is He a Friend
In the event Israel goes to war with Iran, whose side will he be on?
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Israel’s Religious-Music Revolution Can Bring It Closer to the Diaspora
The annual piyyut festival.
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The Barriers to Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue
Responding to a letter from a Palestinian neighbor.
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What an Israeli Wishes Palestinians Could Understand
The Palestinian demand for a right of return is a rejection of Israel’s right to exist.
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Most Israelis Understand That Israel Can Be Right and the Whole World Wrong
Israel must keep those who seek to destroy it from breaching its borders.
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What Jewish Extremists Get Wrong—and Right
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What the Collapse of the Western Wall Compromise Means for Israel, and for Zionism
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How Vladimir Jabotinsky Foresaw Israel’s Current Predicament
Revisiting “The Iron Wall.”
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How the Six-Day War Changed Israel and the Jews
“A kind of religious ecstasy.”
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The Problem with “Jewish” Presidents
Good Jew, bad Jew.
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How Big Is the Divide between American Jews and Israel? And What’s It About?
Many opinions.
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The Anti-Israel Boycott Movement is a Bigoted Threat to Peace
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The Challenges for Israel, Zionism, and the Jewish People
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The War on Passover
There is no Judaism without Jewish peoplehood.
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Jewish Rock, Israeli-Style
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Where Israel and the Diaspora Divide
You say "Iran," I say "lack of a peace deal."
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Israel’s Fight for Its Life
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To Free Our Brothers
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Common Story
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