Sitemap - 2022 - Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis

"Doomed to live together"- Bedouin and Jews in Negev

Not bad decisions, but no decisions at all

If you know Jewish history, Israel's being 74 years old should make you very, very nervous.

Not bad decisions, but no decisions at all

In moments like these, are conversations about Israel really possible?

What the Hanukkah war was really about

In moments like these, are conversations about Israel really possible?

"Herzl’s great gift to the Jewish people was a leap of hope"

"Secular memory in Israel is very short, and Haredi memory is long."

"Woke Anti-Semitism" in the US -- should Israel also be worried?

“Itamar Ben-Gvir just memorialized Kahane as a man of love of the Jewish people"

Meir Kahane's "love and hate of his fellow Jews"

Israelis are flocking to the UAE, but Emiratis are not flocking to Israel; and business relations are only creeping forward

"Seeing Jerusalem was life changing for me"

How intolerant is Israeli society about to become?

"The Israel We Knew" is not gone ...

If the conflict can't be ended, can it be "shrunk"?

How Yair Lapid (accidentally) campaigned for Itamar Ben-Gvir

“We are a herd that can be hunted at any given moment"

Dark Days of October

One of Israel's first female undercover counter-terrorism soldiers tells her story

The one where Yom Kippur escaped from synagogue ...

Yom Kippur: The war that still haunts Israel

Has Judaism now become synonymous with Zionism?

Wishes for the new year

Are Israelis Losing Israel Inside Israel?

"Let’s get physical"

A Christian "Birthright" in America?

An Israeli soldier probably killed Shireen Abu Akleh — what should happen to him now?

Why does Iran Really Hate Israel?

It's "Western indulgence" that fuels the conflict, and don't worry about a Kahanist in the Knesset

Why so many elections? Because Israelis agree on too much. And why you shouldn't worry about a Kahanist running for Knesset

Why does Iran Really Hate Israel?

"If I had a sermon ...."

Can Jewish Students Survive American Colleges?

Mahmoud Abbas' Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

"We'll have what they're having" - Israeli parents insist that they, too, want to attend a Mechinah

"We'll have what they're having" - Israeli parents insist that they, too, want to attend a Mechinah

"The truth is, there isn't only one truth"

Has Judaism now become synonymous with Zionism?

Sieges in the Land of Israel are nothing new; what's changed is how they end

Jewish literacy for Israel adults? Not as obvious as you might think

Let's crowdsource this: What do you think have been Israel's most important missteps ...

Roni Aboulafia: filmmaker, screenwriter and political activist

On Anti-Zionism, Idolatry and Adultery

Are Israeli campuses vulnerable to what has happened at American universities?

Are Israeli campuses vulnerable to what has happened at American universities?

The "new Jew" -- a dream that Zionism realized, or an outmoded idea?

A "confederation" instead of a "two-state solution"?

The Old Jew and the New Jew: Who Predominates in Israel Today?

The youngest female Knesset member in history

Do Israelis really want an end to aliyah?

Yitzchak Shamir, z"l, 1915-2012

Moshe Ben-Dror, z"l: 1922-2022

He bolted Naftali Bennett's coalition even before it was a coalition

Abortion Law in Israel ... in light of Roe v Wade

Ten Spies, 60 Israeli Teenagers, Istanbul and Theodor Herzl

Is Iran Stoppable? What Can Israel Do? Would a new Iran deal be good or bad for Israel?

Operation Opera: Israel's Bombing of Iraq's Nuclear Reactor

Abortion Law in Israel ... in light of Roe v Wade

Nostalgic glimpses of Shavuot from Israel of old

The Horror of Gun Violence -- In Israel's Arab Community

Why was Israel Created?

Is it Time to Pardon Netanyahu to Save Israel's Courts?

The capture of Adolf Eichmann

Fighting Back: Stan Andrews and the Birth of the Israeli Air Force

Hardly a "happy new year"

Dara Horn reports from a haunted present

Israel's "national high holidays"

"The state will not come on a silver platter"

"Is Israel a Success?"—Some thoughts about new ways of thinking about the Jewish state

"That is the fate of our generation — to be willing and armed, strong and unyielding, lest the sword be knocked from our fists, and our lives severed."

”If Israel were destroyed, I hope it would be the end of the Jewish people.”

One goat, two coins: a Seder classic becomes a peace song, and then ....

The One Million Lobby -- A new voice for Israelis of Russian background

"The Enemy Within" — A terror attack in the Negev ignites a long simmering issue

Creating Israeli and Jewish leadership passionately involved in “tikkun olam” (repairing the world) locally and globally

MK Alon Tal on Israel and Ukraine

There is only one American-born and raised member of Knesset

The Nazis’ Use of Purim — and Rosh Hashanah and Passover and more — in their attacks on the Jewish spirit

And now for the contrary view

There's a reason we get drunk and wear costumes on Purim

Israel's Ukrainian Refugee Policy—Smart Strategy or Moral Failure?

Escape from Afghanistan—The role individual Israelis played in saving Afghan lives

"I do not know what will be the end of you."

”The Jewish March of Folly” — Has Israel altered the self-destructive DNA of Jewish history?

"Will the sword devour forever?"

Not Exactly Citizens, Not Exactly Non-Citizens: Diaspora Jews’ Role in Israel

"Surplus Jews" no longer

"Israel Bombs Auschwitz” — Why did America not bomb? And why did American Jews not press?

Avraham Stern, the Warrior-Poet killed by the British

Advocating for Israeli soldiers AND the Palestinian teenagers fighting them? How?

"You lost. This is democracy. You were not accepted here. Get out. Go."

From Prison, to Judaism, to Israel

"Queen of justice, giant of the Israeli legal world"

Thousands more Ethiopian Jews granted permission to come to Israel. Why only now?

"If the sword falls from our hands, our lives will be cut short."

Fauda, Tehran, The Jews are Coming and more …

What motivates a tiny country to offer assistance after disasters across the globe?

"In the countries where we take refuge, they will kill us"

What motivates a tiny country to offer assistance after disasters across the globe?

"The Massacre That Never Was"

Israel’s closing the skies to American Jews—violating a sacred relationship?