Last week we ran Israel’s election 50,000 times. On election night we checked that forecast against the exit polls. Now the real ballots are in, and the number that matters most...
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Rabbi Dov Lior Says You Can “Take” Palestinian Olives. Let’s Grade the Excuses.
Last Friday, Rabbi Dov Lior, the former chief rabbi of Kiryat Arba (the settlement next to Hebron), issued a halachic ruling, meaning a ruling on Jewish religious law, that Jews are allowed to...
Macklemore Sells Golf Pants. We Made Him a Martyr.
Macklemore said two words at the MetLife stadium and lost a tour. Yuval Abraham won a prize in Venice for NAZA and a minister came for his citizenship. I am a Zionist and I am asking my own people to...
NAZA Wins at Venice on Rosh Hashanah: What We Missed
If you keep the chag, you’ve been off your phone since Friday evening. Candles at erev Rosh Hashanah, Shabbat and the first day landing on top of each other on Saturday, the second day coming...
What is Actually Going on in Qusra?
It’s the end of August. Chofesh hagadol is over, thank God, and tomorrow morning the kids go back to school. In Jerusalem that means moving season is at its peak, because nobody switches...
Ben Gvir’s Crocodile Moat. Not A Joke.
Let me say the sentence out loud so you understand how insane it sounds even before we get into why it’s also just historically illiterate, ineffective and breathlessly stupid: Israel’s...