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bohemians on masquerade
A war of the worlds.Two solitudes. Two visions, mutually exclusive and generally hostile to one another. Make that intensely antagonistic. One is religious, self-described as benighted by the almighty, and with it basically undemocratic and often sexist; the other Western … Continue reading
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Tagged Hebron Israel, Hebron Purim Parade, Israel ultra orthodox, Yair Lapid, Zionism
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firing on all pistons
So Jethro heard of goings on in the desert and somehow took a cue to follow the cloud that shielded the exiled Hebrews from Egypt. And he didn’t come empty handed, bringing with him Moses’s wife and two sons. Receiving … Continue reading
civil war: meeting the MK Oxen
“Man is found where his desire is found,” It was a startling vision for the Baal Shem Tov’s students: an ox seated by a Shabbat table. The ox was clad in the finest garments, and was busy gorging himself on … Continue reading
like archie bunkers: all in the (electoral) family
… It wasn’t exactly a Seinfeld election. When the Dow Jones Industrial average ended the decade of the 1970’s exactly where it had begun, it did not mean nothing happened. In fact, the groundwork was laid for the dramatic changes … Continue reading
burning bushes
Darkness at noon. High Noon. It was inevitable that the religious and traditional Zionists would make common cause,attempt to create a new “middle” in Israeli society and dispatch some of the kooks to the dustbin of the political margins. Share … Continue reading
rapid lapid: end of the mexican standoff
Yet, again a new Israeli leader emerges.A brand new shiny? A flash in the pan love affair in US media with the TV celebrity. This is not the same as the favorable profiles of Netanyahu when he first emerged as … Continue reading
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Tagged David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Hanin Zoabi, Jodi Rudoren, M.C. Escher, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ono Academic College, Professor Brown Israel Democracy Institute, Tommy Lapid, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid party, Zahava Gal-On
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democracy in fraction
Israel has an electoral system based on nation-wide proportional representation. What that means is lots of fringe parties and never a majority government. Every government is a coalition. The number of seats which every list receives in the Knesset is … Continue reading
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