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Settling for Radicalism
How the Israeli government has fostered religious extremism and fractured its own democracy The small compound on the green hillside has several...
American Prospect, The, 06/01/09 by Gorenberg, Gershom · More from publication -
It's time for American Jews to speak up!
There's an old story from the cold war era, the kind of unsourced anecdote that probably never happened but nonetheless contains a truth about...
Moment, 03/01/09 by Gershom GorenberG · More from publication -
The other housing crisis: why can't Israel and the Palestinians make peace? There are many complicated reasons, but the facts on the ground point to a simple answer: it's the settlements, stupid.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Each time I drive out of Jerusalem into the West Bank, it strikes me: The hills are changing. Israeli settlements are...
Foreign Policy, 01/01/09 by Gorenberg, Gershom · More from publication -
A new meaning for "who by fire"
I'm a rationalist. My grandmother's mumbled imprecations against the evil eye seemed silly by the time I was seven. I don't believe in omens. When...
Moment, 11/01/08 by Gershom Gorenberg · More from publication -
Scandal in the Rabbinate
Once, the rules seemed clear: Reform or Conservative converts knew that some Jews wouldn't accept them as members of the tribe. Orthodox...
Moment, 07/01/08 by Gershom Gorenberg · More from publication -
Israel: six decades after its founding, the Jewish state is neither as vulnerable as its supporters claim nor as callous and calculating as its critics imagine. But if it is to continue defying all expectations, Israel must first confront its own mytholog
"Israel Is a Successful Democracy" Sort of. From what began as an impoverished and war-ravaged country flooded with Jewish refugees from...
Foreign Policy, 05/01/08 by Gorenberg, Gershom · More from publication -
Our prayer, our problem
The hymn, if you can call it that, came to me in an email from a friend who lives near me in Jerusalem. A friend of his had encountered it in a...
Moment, 03/01/08 by Gershom Gorenberg · More from publication -
And the Land Was Troubled for 40 Years
Even as the Six Day War ended, Israeli leaders said privately that the occupation of Palestine was colonial, racist, illegal, and dangerous. They...
American Prospect, The, 06/01/07 by Gorenberg, Gershom · More from publication -
The Minister for National Fears
Avigdor Lieberman is an oversized man in an undersized room. His beard, remorselessly trimmed to a narrow,âgraying stripe around his cheeks,...
Atlantic, The, 05/01/07 by Gershom Gorenberg · More from publication -
Settlement Creep
AT FIRST GLANCE, IT SEEMED LIKE GOOD NEWS: In January, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz froze plans for a new settlement in the West Bank,...
American Prospect, The, 03/01/07 by Gorenberg, Gershom · More from publication
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