How Judaism Protects, Rather than Hinders, Israeli Democracy
As several great thinkers have observed, religion encourages a positive civic culture.
March 23, 2015
The Election That Didn’t Happen Matters More than the One That Did
Congratulations to Mahmoud Abbas on the eleventh year of his four-year term!
While Israelis were voting last week, the fact that the Palestinian Authority has not held elections in ten years was hardly lost on many Palestinians. Evelyn Gordon argues that—contrary to the declarations of the liberal Western media—the lack of Palestinian democracy is a much bigger obstacle to peace than the choices made by Israel’s democracy:
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The Election That Didn’t Happen Matters More than the One That Did
Congratulations to Mahmoud Abbas on the eleventh year of his four-year term!
Saul Bellow: Jewish in the Gut
His “sense of Judaism, or rather Jewishness, was visceral, not intellectual.”
A 17th-Century Hebrew Bible’s Journey from Germany to Haifa, via Egypt
A secret 1977 trip to Cairo is involved.
Iran Can Still Be Stopped
There's good reason to believe a strike might have longer-lasting effects than many experts think.