Rabbi, Dayan, Ph.D.

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Israel

You Do Not Vote Yair Lapid?

The Haredi Covid Riot

2021-2022

Political Mergers, Right and Left

'Is Israel an Apartheid State?' is Not the Right Question

Must Israel's Jewish Character Be Coercive?

Gantz, Ya'alon, and Lapid: Expedient Alliances

Term Limits for the Prime Minister

2019-2020

Ministry Positions for the Hard Right: My Top Five Picks

A Post Mortem of the 23rd Election

Lieberman's a Weak Leftist?

Too Many Eggs in the Trump Basket

Israel Has Six Parties...Sort of

Distracting Us With Gossip

Spinning Out of Control

"You're Just Like Orly Levy," Said the Interviewer to Lapid

Randomness of the Beirut Explosion

Does Israel Have a Right to be Xenophobic?

Arab Parties and Their Place in Israeli Government

When Heated Rhetoric Gets Too Hot

2013-2018

The Three State Solution

Never Again, or Just Never Again to Us? Asylum for the Yazidi

Celebrating the Killing of a Baby: A Look at the Dark Side of the Force

Moving the American Embassy and the Soft Bigotry of Infantilizing Expectations

Palestinian Nakba and Israeli Independence: Telling Two Incomplete Stories

Learning from Itamar

2011-2012

Revamping the Allon Plan: Thoughts on the Beinart-Gordis Debate

But They Are Not Citizens: A Centrist's Response to Dani Dayan

Time to Not Be Nice

Enough Already with the Modesty Police

Reform, Restore, or Rescind: What to do with the Chief Rabbinate of Israel

Saying Sh'ma without a License, or, How to Get Strip-Searched by Praying at the Kotel