
Instead of Acting Tough Against a Nuclear Iran, Bibi Has Acted Tough With His People
When a politician who’s going through a criminal trial is in charge of changing the nation’s laws, who can trust anything he says?
When a politician who’s going through a criminal trial is in charge of changing the nation’s laws, who can trust anything he says?
The last hope to save Israel from a looming constitutional crisis is if four members of the ruling Likud party declare that they will put their country ahead of their party.
This is what the intoxicating feeling of being right can do even to people who love Israel—make them ignore the raging forest fire that has engulfed Israeli society.
The opening plenary set the tone by urging attendees to think big, to dream big, to see far down the road.
Someone should remind Bibi of the promises he made last November: “to act to lower the flames of public discourse; to heal the rifts… to restore the internal peace within.”
At a time when we’re still feeling the effects of the pandemic, with its prolonged isolation, the Shabbat meal may be the ideal instrument to reconnect us with our humanity and our communities.
As I was looking around at all the darkness around us, it struck me that maybe we can all use a delightful break, like, for example, a cover story on happiness.
If the judicial overhaul goes through, what happens when a center-left coalition comes in with 61 seats and embraces all this extraordinary power?
When you’re a weekly columnist and you go through an eventful week, column ideas have a way of bumping into each other.
As we celebrate Presidents Day at a time when our leaders seem to have forgotten these foundational and unifying ideals, let us honor words and ideas that do justice to these ideals.