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Were we, Israeli Jews, partly drawn to Bibi because we too are still homesick, longing for home that we never quite managed to build?

On fascio and the double-edged ideal of "the people"

Should we remove names of controversial figures from public sites? Is un-naming a chosen, collective amnesia or a teaching moment?

Covid invites us to project upon it our own experiences and expectations, our fears and hopes, providing the perfect template to experiment

A random pangolin might have been more successful at triggering the questioning of capitalistic ideas than Lenin

I have the impression of living in Albert Camus’ landmark 1947 novel La Peste. More than 70 years later, it appears that the situation we ar

Once God guided us, but now, after its death, we turn to the Golem – rising against its own creator… Comparing The Golem & Metropolis

The meaning of lightness in politics is that each political nominate equals another. If this is indeed the attitude to politics of many in I

A friend sent me a picture, which took me down the rabbit hole… On love, hope, and motherhood - at the eve of Israeli election

Metropolis, Lang’s masterful 1927 silent film, might be naïve, but saw far and deep – into the heart of darkness.

Israel undergoes an unprecedented crisis… How has it come to this, and what does it say about Israel, politics, and the human condition?

Can art dare Death to bare Life? A centennial to the untimely departure of two artists who captured the beauty of human frailty Uriel...

We may need God to “hope against hope,” to dream the impossible dream, but such freedom involves a leap of imagination, not of religious...

Few principles are more powerful, and perilous, than self-determination: It can tear states apart, and erect new ones; it can foster war,...

The triumph of Brexit and Trump is the lazy eye of a perfect storm—populist fears filling expanding cracks in our social contracts. The...

“I know not what course others may take,” Patrick Henry concluded his speech to the Virginia Convention in 1775, “but as for me, give me...

Irrational! How else can we explain the conducts of Putin, Netanyahu, Maduro, Jammeh, Kim Jong-un, Tsipras and ISIS? But to understand...

I had left Jerusalem, my hometown, and Israel, my homeland, before, but this time was more painful, because it was much easier. Two years...

The West could have held the upper moral hand in the Crimean crisis, but chose not to. In his annexation speech (March 18, 2014),...

When the leader of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 “Velvet Revolution” and its former president, Vaclav Havel died last month, many eulogies were...