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Bridging the Post-Gaza Divide

Ruth Gavison The Forward
Emanuel (L), an opponent of Israel's disengagement plan from Gaza, embraces a policeman after the rooftop of the synagogue was secured in the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom in Gush Katif settlements bloc, Gaza Strip, August 18, 2005.

Now that Israel has completed its evacuation of settlements in Gaza and the northern West Bank, many uncertainties that plagued us for the past several months have been resolved. The Israeli government showed that it could successfully implement i...

It's not Judaism, It's Conservatism

An expanded panel of Supreme Court justices held in a majority ruling that the adoption law in Israel does not in principle prevent lesbian woman who live and raise their children together from adopting the other's child. The justices in the minor...