Yair Sheleg

Complaints about benefits for yeshiva students should be directed not only against those commiting the extortion, but also against those paying with money that belongs to the entire public.

Israel is full of prophecies of wrath that warn us of the dangers of going against the international community. Today, too, we attack the messengers instead of heeding the message.

As Israel catches up to the West, it will become increasingly difficult to uphold self-sacrifice as a social value.

Nearly all of us have heard of the greatness of Maimonides, but the full range of his ambitions and the contributions he made to Jewish thought still boggle the mind

The truly worrisome finding in [the Guttman Center's] study is not the apparent belief in God, but rather the inverse relationship demonstrated ... between this belief and the belief in democratic values: The stricter a respondent's worldview, the less he identified with democratic values.

The proper thing to do is relate the tension between Judaism and democracy as being pressure between manifestations of human dignity: dignity for the universal person, and that for the Jewish person who has the right to political sovereignty.

In the religious community itself, there should be a central moral criterion for judging words of Torah.

Instead of cottage cheese, Israelis should boycott the reality shows that cause serious socio-cultural damage.