One day in 2005, Jonathan Ben Efrat of Video48 noticed Palestinian laborers waiting for jobs at a busy junction on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Stopping to talk, he learned that they were shabahim, illegal sojourners. To get around the checkpoints…
Article Author: Langfur, Stephen
Last-Ditch Myths of the Zionist Left
From its beginning, the State of Israel has existed in a cleft stick between the concepts “Jewish state” and “democracy.” Every now and then something happens to bring the cleft into focus. Presently, it is the ruckus around border-crossing Azmi…
Interview with Susan Nathan
Susan Nathan fulfilled a lifelong dream by immigrating to Israel from England in 1999 at the age of 50. She had grown up in a family of strong universal values. Israel was central to their lives. It was treasured as…
Catch 67 in Jerusalem
Since early 2004, there has been a sharp reduction in suicide attacks against Israelis. Some are inclined to link this fact to the separation barrier that Israel has built in the northwestern part of the West Bank. Yet the barrier…
Refusal on the Right
After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead…
The Holocaust, the Faithful, and Disengagement
Ideological Crisis in the Religious Right THE ORTHODOX Jewish settlers raise the specter of civil war if Prime Minister Ariel Sharon persists in his plan to disengage from Gaza and part of the West Bank. Sixty rabbis have commanded soldiers…