There are many times here when I've begun a post saying something along the lines of "Israel has gone well and truly mad." This is one of those nights. A popular Israeli TV presenter, Tzvi Yehezkeli, posed this question to his Facebook followers: "Tell us what you think: should an organ donor be allowed to decide who should receive their donated organ? … [Read more...]
Western Wall: Nexus for Gender and Religious-Nationalist Conflict
This week, Israel's far-right government acceded to its ultra-Orthodox coalition partners and torpedoed a compromise years in the making, which had been intended to offer Israeli women a means of worshipping at the Western Wall in an egalitarian manner. Women of the Wall have long protested the segregation and second-class status of women who choose to pray … [Read more...]
FBI Arrests White Supremacist Planning Synagogue Attack After Trump Bristles at Anti-Semitism Question
This has been a bad day for Donald Trump. Not a bad day perhaps on a national scale. But today he lost even those 20% of Jews who voted him in the last election. His problems began with today's press conference in which a Jewish reporter asked him (after having been asked virtually the same question yesterday) what he could say to American Jews to assure … [Read more...]
Netanyahu Corruption Scandal Envelops Wealthy U.S. Haredi Family
The only thing better than a nice, juicy sex scandal is a nice, juicy corruption scandal. Bibi Netanyahu has already had his very own sex scandal. But it didn't manage to wreck his career or his marriage. The brewing corruption scandal threatens to do at least one, if not the other. I reported yesterday on an investigation that has caught up Netanyahu, … [Read more...]
