Not so long ago, American Jewish children learned from their parents to love the State of Israel. Even secular, assimilated American Jews gave their kids charity boxes to collect nickels and dimes to plant trees there, as the parents do in Woody Allen’s 1987 film Radio Days. But that was ...
Naomi Ragen Fear of ostracism—not lack of conviction—prevents some haredi men from enlisting. A day before the haredi “million man
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By Naomi Ragen // Several high-profile Israeli rabbis have come under fire for less-than-holy schemes. ...
Since the recent elections, new laws are changing Israeli society for better and worse. ...
With the new government in place, Israelis are beginning to address the complicated question of what they want their country to look like. ...
Our columnist leaves her comfort zone and accepts an aliyah for the first time. ...
On the sleepy afternoon of March 21, 2012, alarm sirens went off all over Jerusalem, sending me and my racing
...By Naomi Ragen The cultural divide in Israel between Haredi and secular Jews has reached new extremes. In December, Haredi
...Israel’s High Court agreed that gender separation on Israeli public buses violated the principles of equality, individual rights and freedom
...Back in 2003 I took a bus from downtown Jerusalem to my home in the northern suburb of Ramot, a
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