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By: Adrian Blomfield / 15th November 2011 / / Members of the Kadima, the principal opposition party, waved black flags to mourn the "death of democracy" after Israel's parliament, the Knesset, passed two bills that will tilt the balance of the country's Supreme Court sharply to the right. / / The legislators involved in the protest had their flags confiscated before being expelled from the Knesset's chamber at the orders of the speaker. / / The passage of the bills has prompted outrage among many Israeli politicians who see them as an assault on the independence..

  / To paraphrase a piece of Greek mythology, it was the government that stopped a dozen or so ships. / / Greece dispatched coast guard sailors and successfully stalled Flotilla 2.0 from leaving port, an action that all but ensures that there will be no round two for the Free Gaza organizers who intended to break the Israeli blockade on the Hamas-ruled fiefdom again, a strip roughly the size of Detroit. Last year, Turkey was the host of the first aid flotilla, which after an encounter with the Israeli navy in international waters left nine activists onboard killed, including a 19-year-old..

Israel's Jewish identity / The state we're in / Mar 17th 2011, 9:07 by D.L. | JERUSALEM /   /   / PERHAPS because herring was a respected staple in the Eastern European Jewish shtetl, there is no literal translation in Yiddish of the English phrase, "red herring". Instead, Yiddish-speaking Jews use the expression "climbing up the smooth walls" to accuse someone of coming up with superfluous and irrelevant arguments in order to cloud the issue. /   / That expression, which has made its way into Hebrew, comes to mind whenever you hear—as you..

Written in a clear but poignant style, Rav Kaplan, expounds on the deep historic-spiritual relationship the Jews have with the city of Jerusalem. Providing the fullness to why Jerusalem is so revered in the Jewish imagination and explaining in a lurid fashion the great devotion the Jews have had for this spot on earth 1000's of years before the birth of Jesus and Mohammad.

“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” / / "You must accept the truthfrom whatever source it comes." / / "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." / / "If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect." / / "One should see the world, and see himself as a scale..

The Legendary speech Chaim Herzog gave at the UN on November 10th. 1975 where he showed the Jewish State's response to resolutions that held Zionism to be racism.

  / / Beth Lassiter / / / Benjamin Netanyahu has been at the helm of the Israeli government for just over a year and has made some significant decisions thus far, but has yet to make that momentous decision that will define his premiership. So far, Netanyahu’s decisions have either been ones that mitigate the damage done by his predecessors, or are the sort made out of political consideration, mostly to shore up his existing coalition or create unity coalition government. Until now, the Prime Minister has managed this juggling act but he cannot hope to do the same in his second year..

  / In Israel, the Noble vs. The Ugly / / Nicholas Kristoff / / / / Israel goes out of its way to display its ugliest side to the world by tearing down Palestinian homes or allowing rapacious settlers to steal Palestinian land. / / / Yet there’s also another Israel as well, one that I mightily admire. This is the democracy that tolerates a far greater range of opinions than America. It’s a citadel of civil society. And, crazily, it’s the place where some of the most courageous and effective voices on behalf of oppressed Palestinians belong to Israeli rabbis..

June 18, 2010 / / / With Turkey turning toward the East and its relationship with Israel left in tatters, the question stands where does Israel turn? Morocco represents the greatest potential for political alliance for an Israel searching for a state to serve as a bridge to the Muslim world. The strategic importance of Israel having an asset such was Turkey cannot be ignored, and yet Israel’s government is today lacking an alternative policy to stave off the damage done to Israel’s geo-political position by an Islamist Turkey. Such an alternative, I believe, does exist in Morocco, where Israel..

Daniel Gordis in the current issue of Azure, provides a vivid and enriching commentary on the Hebrew Bible's story of the Tower of Babel. In this episode, the author brings home poignant political understandings to man and the political order that best suits him.