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June 9, 2009

The back and forth in the past week or so over whether the Bush-era agreement on “natural growth” in the settlements should apply in the age of Obama raises a question: Was there ever such an agreement? The answer, I think is yes, in principle — but never in practice. What prompted this train of […]

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What’s it like to be an IDF soldier? Ha’aretz takes a close look at IDF boot camp. During his first weeks of basic training, Uriah Maimoni had a problem: Whenever he stood together with the other recruits in Platoon 1, he could not stop smiling. "The commanders were always telling me to stop laughing. Even […]

Two egalitarian-style Orthodox minyans — one in Jerusalem’s German Colony, the other on Manhattan’s Upper West Side — talk to Ha’aretz’s Lisa Schwartz about the effort to be Orthodox, pluralistic, egalitarian and community-oriented, all at the same time. On any given Shabbat in Jerusalem, minyans around the city wait for ten men to begin praying. […]

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