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(Religious Dictatorship) Tikvah Funds Anti-Democratic Coup (Israel)

Posted on March 24, 2023 by zjb

I’m including below a notification sent to my email from the Tikvah Fund and this link here to an op-ed written by Elliot Abrams and Eric Cohen in the Jerusalem Post in support of the judicial coup in Israel. Long … Continue reading →

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Tikvah Fund = Anti-Gay = Anti-Liberal = Nazi-Adjacent

Posted on June 15, 2022 by zjb

The story is already only just a little old already, but it’s worth chiming in about the Tikvah Fund and Gov. Ron DeSantis at The Museum of Jewish Heritage, which bills itself as A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. About … Continue reading →

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(Jewish Law) The Tikvah Fund = The Conservative U.S. Group Trying to Transform Israel’s Justice System

Posted on December 27, 2020 by zjb

  This post is something by way of an epilogue. Back in the day, the Tikvah Fund and the people running its various organs and sister institutions in the United States (academic programs at Princeton and NYU, the Jewish Review … Continue reading →

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(Horrid Ideas) The Tikvah Fund & The Racist Right in Israel

Posted on September 20, 2019 by zjb

Always academic undercover, there was nothing ever innocent about the Tikvah Fund. In the States, they have since shut down their field operations, at Princeton and NYU. This article here at Haaretz includes in its analysis of the influence of … Continue reading →

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(Haredi) Religion & State in Israel (Coronavirus)

Posted on October 1, 2020 by zjb

  What is especially fine about the analysis here are the distinctions drawn between [1] first wave (spring 2020) and second wave rates and patterns of infection, [2] Hasidic and non-Hasidic (Litvak) and Sephardic Haredi communities, [3] demographic circumstance (large … Continue reading →

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Haredim & State

Posted on October 23, 2020 by zjb

The Coronavirus pandemic and its impact on Haredi society and the impact of Haredi society on the State in Israel are highlighting the strong core point of liberal political theory and liberal religion in relation to matters concerning the distinction … Continue reading →

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The Tikvah Fund is Dangerous To Israeli Society

Posted on February 5, 2018 by zjb

The Tikvah Fund is still doing damage, mostly in Israel nowadays. Consider this from a recent article at Ynet, which you can read here: “I think the New Israel Fund is less dangerous to Israeli society and solidarity than the Tikvah … Continue reading →

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(Decision Plan) Tikvah Fund & Ethnic Cleansing in Israel

Posted on September 19, 2017 by zjb

Jewish Studies colleagues along with readers of Tablet Magazine online and the Jewish Review of Books should find of interest this piece by here by JJ Goldberg. The article is about a recent rightwing plan, promoted by one Bezalel Smotrich, … Continue reading →

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Jewish & Anti-Democratic (Tikvah Fund)

Posted on October 6, 2016 by zjb

The neconservative Tikva Fund has a new Hebrew language platform in Israel where they published this bit by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked. Those of us in the field know that the Tikva Fund has long committed itself to “law,” “Jewish … Continue reading →

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Have Your Cake & Eat It (Right Left Anti-Semitism at Tablet)

Posted on November 25, 2016 by zjb

Tablet Magazine is a platform for the neo-conservative Jewish right. It always has been, like its sister site at the mostly defunct Tikvah Fund, mixing political content into parve Jewish cultural content. As a case in point, for anyone wondering … Continue reading →

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