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Growing contradictions at the heart of Israel’s liberal camp - opinion

Israeli liberal leaders push policies that clash with democratic principles, showing differing ways of how they treat different communities.

An illustrative image of a reporter for Army Radio (Galei Tzahal) taken in 2019.
Palestinian port authority holds passports of passengers to show the press that they are leaving Gaza legally.

Liberal Zionist groups criticize Trump’s travel ban on those with Palestinian Authority passports

THE KNESSET plenum meets this week. Israel’s rules of the game are not anchored in a constitution and can be changed by a simple Knesset majority, the writer notes.

Thin constitution needed to stabilize the government amid political crisis - opinion

A PALESTINIAN FLAG is attached to a traffic light as a rally takes place to challenge the UK government’s banning of Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws, in Parliament Square, last month. Europe finds itself entangled with radical Islam, says the writer.

Israel advances coexistence while Europe ignores the clash of civilizations - opinion


Senate's vote to advance Kavanaugh polarizes liberal and conservative Jews

The groups against the decision were the National Council of Jewish Women and the Reform movement. Those praising the vote included the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Coalition for Jewish Values

US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, September 27, 2018

Conservative National-Religious org. attacks liberal groups over funding

“We are saying ‘enough’ to the whitewashing of the NIF amongst the National-Religious community,” said Amital Bareli, director of Chotam.

Jennifer Gorovitz, VP of the New Israel Fund

Sweden’s prophet

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Judaism under attack: The Orwellian hijack of tikkun olam

THE PRINCIPAL value of Judaism is justice itself (with compassion a close second). Contemporary “social” justice, however, hijacks the word and evacuates it of meaning.

A charming moment by the Kotel.

The Nation-State Law: The first serving of the ‘New Israel’

The central argument does not focus anymore on the division of land, but on the character of the State of Israel.

The Knesset votes on the nation-state bill, July 19, 2018

Just married

“Why don’t they have the entire ceremony out of doors? Isn’t it a mitzva to hold the huppa under the stars?” Lianne asked, stuffing a forkful of shrimps into her mouth.

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The Jared and Ivanka Watch continues and Liberals have lost hope

Ivanka Trump has kinda sorta spoken out on the separation of migrant families – in June, on Twitter, thanking her father for signing an executive order reversing the policy.

Senior White House Advisers Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump attend a reception held at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem ahead of the moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem, May 13, 2018

Retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Jewish legacy

Kennedy’s most notable liberal votes – on same-sex marriage and abortion – were in line with left-wing and centrist Jewish organizations. Thirteen Jewish groups, among them organizations representing

 US Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy

In defense of Jewish liberals

There are liberals and conservatives, whose positions about Israel are wrong and based on prejudice and hatred, but to brand all liberals, or all conservatives, as hateful and evil is just wrong.

A STATUE of Martin Luther King. Many Jews supported the Civil Rights movement in the US

Italy and the decay of European liberalism

Those who desire to save the liberal project in Europe and in America must release themselves from the bonds of the past; today more than ever, their people have nothing to lose but their chains.

An activist wears a cutout of Silvio Berlusconi a day after Italy's elections, March 2018