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Anshel Pfeffer

Anshel Pfeffer

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How Israel Is Desecrating the Torah

Israel will be marking Shavuot – the festival commemorating the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai – with a new state budget that prioritizes the...

29.05.2023 20

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The Learners or the Earners – Which Israel Will Prevail?

Israel will be marking Shavuot – the festival commemorating the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai – with a new state budget that prioritizes the...

24.05.2023 20

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They Hate Israel’s Supreme Court, but Didn't Join the Right-wing Protest Against It

The first major protest against the Israeli Supreme Court was held in Jerusalem on February 14, 1999, when an estimated 350,000 demonstrators called...

28.04.2023 20

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They Hate Israel’s Supreme Court, but Didn't Join the Right-wing Protest Against It

The first major protest against the Israeli Supreme Court was held in Jerusalem on February 14, 1999, when an estimated 350,000 demonstrators called...

27.04.2023 10

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New Law Barring Bread in Hospitals on Passover Reveals a Battle for Israel's Identity

Monday was a day of high drama in the Knesset. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated outside – those opposing the government’s judicial overhaul...

30.03.2023 30

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Israel’s Long-awaited Secular Uprising Is Finally Here

For decades, many Israelis have been waiting for the secular uprising. The moment when the majority of Israelis who are not ultra-Orthodox, who serve...

10.03.2023 100

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How Netanyahu’s Pact With the Far Right Is Fracturing the pro-Israel Jewish World

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Wednesday at a conference held by Haaretz’s business newspaper, TheMarker, that “the village of Hawara...

02.03.2023 30

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What Zelenskyy Can Teach Israel’s Leaders About Jews and Democracy

Reconnaissance unit commander Nikolay Romanenko took to the stage of Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium on Wednesday with a song he apparently composed...

23.02.2023 7

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The Protest Group Both Netanyahu and His Opponents Never Saw Coming

Among the many creative homemade signs on display at Monday’s massive pro-democracy rally in Jerusalem was one that genuinely surprised me. It was...

16.02.2023 20

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In Israel, a Civil War Is No Longer Unthinkable

Over the last few days I’ve found myself in conversations I never imagined I’d ever have. Since these are conversations with Israelis, everything...

09.02.2023 20

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Can U.S. Liberal Jews Change Israeli Politics? Right-wing Jews Know the Answer

I asked a group of Jewish-American students this week to name the American Jew who’d had the most influence on today’s Israel. The automatic...

06.02.2023 6

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Can U.S. Liberal Jews Change Israeli Politics? Right-wing Jews Know the Answer

I asked a group of Jewish-American students this week to name the American Jew who’d had the most influence on today’s Israel. The automatic...

03.02.2023 20

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As Arye Dery Amassed Power, His Voters in Israel Got Left Behind

Sometimes 24 years in politics is quite a short time. At least it felt that way Wednesday evening after the High Court of Justice disqualified Arye...

19.01.2023 8

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Democracy in Israel Will End Before a Civil War Erupts

There are two ways to say “civil war” in Hebrew. The more accurate and technical translation of the term is milchemet ezrachim – a war of...

13.01.2023 90

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Why the Truth About Israel’s Haredi Pioneers Remains Hidden in Archives

At first sight, the flickering black-and-white scenes look familiar: Jewish pioneers, first on an agricultural training course somewhere back in...

23.12.2022 60

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Why the Truth About Israel’s Haredi Pioneers Remains Hidden in Archives

At first sight, the flickering black-and-white scenes look familiar: Jewish pioneers, first on an agricultural training course somewhere back in...

22.12.2022 30

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What Israel's Religious Right Will Learn From Qatar's World Cup Win

Twelve years ago, when international soccer’s governing body FIFA announced that Russia would host the 2018 World Cup and Qatar would follow it in...

16.12.2022 40

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What Israel's Religious-right Will Learn From Qatar's World Cup Win

Twelve years ago, when international soccer’s governing body FIFA announced that Russia would host the 2018 World Cup and Qatar would follow it in...

15.12.2022 20

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Netanyahu’s New Government Is Headed for a Jewish Identity Crisis

I must own up to a rather perverse sense of excited anticipation at the imminent inauguration of the new Netanyahu government. It offers so much to an...

09.12.2022 30

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Netanyahu’s New Government Is Headed for a Jewish Identity Crisis

I must own up to a rather perverse sense of excited anticipation at the imminent inauguration of the new Netanyahu government. It offers so much to an...

08.12.2022 10

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Antisemitism, Undeterred: What Kanye West's Attacks on the Jews Really Tell Us

Six weeks ago when the saga of Kanye West and his antisemitic statements erupted, some people explained it away as the by-product of psychological...

02.12.2022 30

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Antisemitism, Undeterred: What Kanye West's Attacks on the Jews Really Tell Us

Six weeks ago when the saga of Kanye West and his antisemitic statements erupted, some people explained it away as the by-product of psychological...

01.12.2022 10

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Why Israel's ultra-Orthodox Politicians Are Terrified of Iranian Women

I’ve been following how the ultra-Orthodox media reports inconvenient facts for the past 24 years, like when I read in the “Lithuanian”...

25.11.2022 40

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Why Israel's ultra-Orthodox Politicians Are Terrified of Iranian Women

I’ve been following how the ultra-Orthodox media reports inconvenient facts for the past 24 years, like when I read in the “Lithuanian”...

24.11.2022 30

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