February 24
Reclaiming Secular Zionism’s Religiosity
David Ben-Gurion desired the “redemption of the Jewish people.”
Turkey’s Emerging Friendship with Pakistan
And the Chinese connection.
A Television Drama Libels Hasidic Jews as Benighted Bigots
While a comedy does the same to Israel.
February 23
How the Palestinian Authority Is Expanding Its Control over the West Bank
The real settlement problem.
Egypt and Israel Send a Message to Turkey, and to the U.S.
An official visit was about more than gas pipelines.
How Conservative Judaism Got Everything Right but Religion
Consecrated by history, but not sanctified by God.
A Medieval Scroll of Esther Comes to Israel
From 15th-century Iberia.
February 22
In Arranging the Release of a Hostage from Syria, Russia Got to Show Israel Who’s Boss
Buying vaccines to save a citizen.
How Close Is Iran to Getting Nuclear Weapons?
So close that renewal of the 2015 agreement would be dangerous.
North Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor Appears to Have an Anti-Semitism Problem
He seems unwilling to back down from disturbing comments about Jews, blacks, and Hollywood.
Remembering Shlomo Hillel, Who Brought His Fellow Iraqi Jews to Israel
And helped do the same for the Ethiopians.
