Ideas Meir Shalev and Yehonatan Geffen were Israeli cultural royalty. Their deaths leave a hole on the left. The novelist and the songwriter, both shaped by their youths in the same pioneering community, died within days of each other.
The Sit-Down Ideas Why a liberal Zionist rabbi isn’t taking to the streets over Israel’s judicial reform plan Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch has spoken out against the current government, but says there are limits to Diaspora criticism of the Jewish state.
Ideas Multiple efforts in Jewish sovereignty have self-destructed after 75 years. Can Israel defy history — again? Israel triumphed over external threats. Two scholars ask if it can survive its internal divides.