This is the Forward’s coverage of the 2023 judiciary reform effort and resultant crisis in Israel.
Judicial Overhaul
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News Why more American Jews aren’t protesting about Israel right now
The American Jewish crowds, compared to many past protests and rallies, have been relatively small
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Looking Forward What should American Jews do about the assault on Israeli democracy?
'When someone you love is in trouble,' said Yossi Klein Halevi, 'you don't pull away, you draw closer'
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News Why a county in Utah could play a role in Israel’s judicial crisis
A county in Utah has, improbably, caused a seismic shift in the way marriages are legally recognized in the Jewish state
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Fast Forward White House officials will not attend Israel Bonds conference headed by far-right Israeli minister
Israel Bonds refused to cancel the appearance of Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister, who recently said a West Bank Palestinian village should be ‘wiped out'
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Fast Forward Former IDF intelligence chief warns of dire foreign policy consequences for Israel over judiciary crisis
The Israeli government's focus on a controversial judiciary overhaul could compromise the nation’s foreign policy priorities, Maj. Gen. (res.) Tamir Hayman said in an interview
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Fast Forward Mike Bloomberg: Israel’s judicial reforms could make Brexit’s economic effects look like ‘bubkes’
Bloomberg said Netanyahu’s planned reforms were harming the economy that he helped open up in his previous terms as prime minister
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Fast Forward Netanyahu government advances judicial reforms as protests intensify to include IDF reservists
El Al might be unable to fly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a state trip to Rome this week because too few employees are willing to work the trip
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News American rabbis, wrestling with Israel’s behavior, weigh different approaches from the pulpit
Critiquing Israel in front of a congregation has an informal name, one rabbi said: 'Death by Israel sermon.'
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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Looking Forward My artist grandmother nearly made aliyah. I don’t know what she’d think of Israel today
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.