NOTE: I did an interview with Jeremy Rothe-Kushel for his podcast. It was devoted to the murder of Shireen Abu Aqleh and the Yossi Cohen scandal. UPDATE: In the aftermath of the Jerusalem Day “festivities” throughout East Jerusalem, Palestinian have decided they’re “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.” Mass violence […]
Why is the Israeli Supreme Court Deciding Who is a Jew?
Imagine this: American Christian denominations are battling tooth and nail over defining who is a Christian, including whether conversion performed by one may be recognized by the other. Imagine a country in which Southern Baptists refuse to marry Roman Catholics, and Unitarians refuse to marry Episcopalians. All because they refuse to recognize the other denominations […]
Bibi the Maccabee
Happy Hanukah to all: more light, less darkness! Earlier today, Bibi Netanyahu stood before a hanukiya at the Western Wall and lit the Hanukah candles. He was accompanied by the U.S. ambassador and settler acolyte, David Friedman (he appears to have left his pickax home). None of this was particularly unusual. It wasn’t even a […]
Senior Israeli Security Minister: We Will Redeem the Temple Mount, Make It Ours
NOTE: This is an expanded version of an article published earlier this week by Middle East Eye. The headline blasted off the pages of Israel HaYom: Israel’s Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan, boasted: “Freedom of worship on the Temple Mount? It can happen in the next few years, a decade at most.” The explicit meaning […]
