Don Futterman

A referendum on a future peace settlement would polarize Israel, but at least the two-state solution camp would have to get up out of their complacency and fight to win hearts and minds - and a campaign budget.

Having Amharic-Hebrew speakers mediate between Ethiopian students, their parents and school faculty boosts educational achievement, reduces culture clashes and prejudice and revives self-belief in the Israeli-Ethiopian community.

The author and the politician have separately breathed new life into the Talmudic stories, offering fresh takes on Judaism's role in the contemporary world from within the tradition.

How does one deal with the mind-numbing politics of this country? With the hard-biting, endlessly entertaining satire of 'State of the Nation,' a brilliant show on Israel's Channel 2.

Israel's courts have the chance in a couple of days to wrest control of the City of David from Elad, an NGO with a narrow and destructive settlement agenda, and to re-affirm Jerusalem's role not only in the Jewish national saga but also Arab history and world culture.

Ethiopians are careful to hide the friction between Beta Yisrael and Falashmura, for fear it could damage the community’s image.

We waited, compulsively mulling next steps, our minds trapped in logic loops of conventional wisdom with a 12-hour shelf life, most of which intersected at the junction of, will we or won't we invade Gaza?

At the moment, it seems Netanyahu may have bet on the wrong horse, but why was the leader of the Jewish state betting on horses at all?

We must resist the lie that the largest protests in Israel's history were not successful, whether by making corporate interests bend to boycotts or political leaders pay at the ballot box.

It is foolish to delay the integration of Falashmura into Israeli society when we have the capacity to absorb them now.

How in the world did the flight of tens of thousands of African refugees to an imagined sanctuary in Israel become a left-right issue?

The Zionist boycott is a proposed wake-up call designed to counter the subliminal campaign to erase the term ‘occupied territories’ from our lexicon.

Vilnai and Meroz asked the children if they liked books, and were startled when the kids said they loved to read and that Hebrew was their favorite class.

Israel is an in-your-face society. People prefer directness to subtlety, they tell you what they think, they talk over each other, and rudeness begins far beyond what some Americans and Europeans are used to.

In 2010 only six out of 3,366 applications for asylum were approved here - far less than 1 percent.

As in the West Bank, the government's legal firepower has been tasked not with helping citizens or getting at the truth, but with keeping land out of Arab hands by any means possible.

Much of our socioeconomic reality is the result of policy choices, not divine edict, and we have the option to set different priorities.

It’s only possible to imagine Jews engaging in this kind of theorizing when we were the powerless victims of violence by our non-Jewish neighbors.

Nationalists have conflated loyalty with both security concerns and the Jewish identity of the country.

The Israeli government and the Jewish Agency for Israel are preparing to make history by bringing the Ethiopian aliyah to its rightful and successful conclusion. The one obstacle is the treasury, which is more concerned with costs than with the ingathering of the exiles.

Not every bad idea from America needs to be imported to Israel.