There are big holidays, there are important holidays, and there is Hanukkah – the holiday that reinvents itself every generation: once a national heroic story, then a miracle of oil, then a children’s holiday, then a 15-shekel donut holiday.
Remember the good old days, when rain was just… rain? When gray skies received at most a footnote like “Take an umbrella,” and not an emergency flash on the front page that made you think aliens had landed in Ayalon Canyon?
And this time, a satirical column, sharp but not inflammatory, that seeks to address one of the popular slogans of the humanist-relativist era.
We love this country, because it is ours.
With all the mess, the congestion, the luxury and the madness… and maybe that’s why.
One of the strangest, most intimidating, and most… Israeli professions there is: bus inspectors.
So good morning, tickets please…
There are certain things in the world: the sun rises in the east, the IDF is delayed in a briefing, and the Haaretz editorial team presents Israel to its readers — but only after it has been put through an industrial guilt grinder.
Like gefilte fish: grind, add ironic sauce, and be careful not to make it feel a little too Jewish.
How a people who gave the world ethics, justice and monotheism became “problematic” in Intro to Critical Theory.
If education doesn’t teach kids to think – only to memorize — then it isn’t education.
It’s pedagogical makeup with the flavor of “lite.”
Before you turn on the air conditioner for the third time today – warm yourself up with an article that understands exactly how an Israeli body feels in tropical distress.
Where is the winter? Enough with this heat…
As long as there are people here who continue to believe – not in the theory of binationality, but in the historical right of one small and troublesome people to return home – hope is not lost.
And deep down we still have a little bit of Jewish audacity, a little faith, and a little healthy cynicism – it will not disappear either.
What Are They Trying to Sell Us in the Name of “The Protest”
November 30, 2025
