Kahana has a law to promote: Israel’s law of conversion. The short recap of what the new law intends to do: eliminate the monopoly of the rabbinate over conversions and let city rabbis perform official conversions.
It’s true that distinguishing a tribe of the ultra-Orthodox from a tribe of the Arabs is easy. But the boundaries between religious and secular are much murkier.
Last week, an interview in which Trump bashed former Prime Minister Netanyahu was published in Israel and was quoted around the world.
Does one need to study the Bible? When we move from the Ben-Gurion generation to the current generation of Israelis, we find a clear decline in the status of the Bible.
It was Sunday evening, the first night of Hanukkah, and Israel’s President, formerly the head of the Labor movement, decided to pay a visit to our forefathers, in the city of Hebron.
Iran is successful in being elusive and shadowy. It never presents its enemies with a make-or-break decision, never confront them in ways that could potentially result in a big gamble.
Israel is making a significant constitutional change for no reason other than confusion and frustration.
Is Netanyahu finally on the way down? We will leave the prediction, or prophecy, to others, and concentrate on a few numbers—the numbers that work against Netanyahu, and those he can look at with hope: 3, 59, 35, 8.
When the U.S. moved its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the goal was not an improvement in servicing Israelis; the goal was to make a statement: Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.
At the end of last week, six Palestinian organizations were designated by Israel as “terrorist organizations.” The U.S. State Department did not seem pleased with the move, nor did several Israeli leftist ministers and European governments and even some Jewish groups.
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