An Idiot’s Guide to Israeli Judicial Reform
The domestic & international hysteria over the Israeli government’s challenge to the Supreme Court serves to obfuscate the actual situation.
Michael Shepsis is a practicing attorney, having graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 2009. He is a founder of the Boston DOREINU chapter and is active in the local Jewish community.
The domestic & international hysteria over the Israeli government’s challenge to the Supreme Court serves to obfuscate the actual situation.
Because Israel exists as a microcosm of humanity, whenever any nation’s character is underdeveloped a similar lack can be found within the Jewish people.
The former US president’s candid interview with Barak Ravid confirms that Washington has ultimate control over the State of Israel’s major policies.
The Bikkurim help us to transcend our individual identities so we can perceive & experience ourselves as part of a greater Israelite collective.
It’s refreshing to see that a Jewish writer in the United States is still willing to ask questions that many mistakenly think to have long been settled.
Even after nearly forty years, Jewish leaders in the United States can’t bring themselves to recognize the very real dilemma Jonathan Pollard was faced with.
More Jewishness & Democracy from the River to the Sea can lead to real justice & peace for both peoples.
Will it still be next year in Jerusalem?
The common themes of destructive encounters with the West, connection to ancestral land, unity, and liberation should foster Jewish solidarity with the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Those attending the AIPAC Policy Conference in DC should ask some very important questions about Jewish liberation and the US-Israel relationship.
Stern was a revolutionary poet who inspired a liberation movement that restored Jewish independence to our land after nearly 2,000 years.
Shmita not only expresses the Jewish people’s unique and intimate relationship with the land of Israel but also frames how we relate to economic activity and experience time.