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The documentary Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment looks at the kibbutz movement at 100. In the fifth and final installment of the work in progress, filmmaker Toby Perl Freilich considers the movement’s future. For a sneak peek of the film’s rough cut, please join us at the JCC in Manhattan on Tuesday, September 7, ...

When Offir Asher returned to Israel after 18 years in Toronto, he dreamed of building a world-class resort village on the Mediterranean shore. The reward he and his business partner Pini Malka reaped for their trouble was to be tarred as “avaricious real estate developers” by Israeli president Shimon Peres and demonized by environmentalists, led ...

The documentary Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment looks at the kibbutz movement at 100. In Tablet Magazine’s fourth installment of the work in progress, filmmaker Toby Perl Freilich examines the challenges facing the third generation of Kibbutz members.
SEE PART 1: Toby Perl Freilich introduces Inventing Our Life
SEE PART 2: The birth of kibbutzim and ...

Saudi Arabia lacks Israel’s official stance of nuclear ambiguity, but its status is even more opaque. Indeed, though it has never acknowledged a nuclear program, the kingdom may already have a bomb.
With Iran’s seemingly inexorable march toward a nuclear weapon, it’s not difficult to see why the Saudis would want one of their own, to ...

In the fourth grade, I stopped saying the pledge of the allegiance. While the other children clapped their hands to their hearts, I stood, my arms limp, lips still. It was not an act of rebellion, nor did I intend to disrespect the United States. I’d simply decided—after several classmates had tried to convert me ...

Today, the Times reported that the United States has persuaded Israel that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons for at least one year; that there will be ample warning before the “breakout” actually occurs; and, therefore, there is no need to consider a military strike as early as the beginning of 2011, as Tablet Magazine ...

Earlier this week, news outlets around the world circulated candid snapshots of a young Israeli soldier sitting next to a number of bound and blindfolded Palestinian men and looking at the camera with a coy grin. The soldier, Eden Abergil, had posted the photos to Facebook, in a personal album titled “The Army: The most ...

The documentary Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment looks at the kibbutz movement at 100. In Tablet Magazine’s third installment of the work in progress, filmmaker Toby Perl Freilich looks at joys and heartbreaks of growing up in a kibbutz.
SEE PART 1: Toby Perl Freilich introduces Inventing Our Life
SEE PART 2: The birth of kibbutzim ...

For ten years, Lebanon’s parliament could not agree on a law to permit offshore oil and gas exploration due to disagreement over which companies could benefit. But yesterday, Lebanon finally passed just such a law under the leadership of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. What broke the impasse? “The amount of debt and Israeli greed are ...

In Newsweek, Tablet Magazine Mideast columnist Lee Smith argued that the United States is perfectly happy to sell sophisticated military equipment, like F-15 fighter planes, to Saudi Arabia—and Israel is perfectly happy to see the sale go through, provided the planes lack longer-range capability—because the name of the game in the region is increasingly the ...