How War Has Exposed the Chasm Between Israel’s Citizenry and Its Elites

[View this email in your browser]( January 4, 2024 • Tevet 23, 5784 # [Life During Wartime]( The view from the boulevards, buses, and Zumba classes of Tel Aviv [BY DANA KESSLER](#) LISTEN TO TABLET # TAKE ONE [Bava Kama 63]( Does Jewish text inform our spiritual lives, or is it just a form of OCD? JANUARY 4, 2024 # [Do You Have Any Other Place to Live?]( The mother of a fallen IDF soldier underscores the divergent worldviews of Israel’s patriotic citizens and its privileged elites [BY GADI TAUB](#) IN THE SCROLL ‘Preference falsification has been central to the trajectory of DEI. People who abhor DEI principles and methods came to favor these publicly through a preference cascade. Every instance of preference falsification induced others to pretend they consider DEI just, efficient, beneficial to marginalized groups, etc. In time, a false consensus effectively displaced the search for truth as the university’s core mission, replacing it with DEI. Most professors watched in concealed horror the transfer of enormous powers from themselves to rapidly growing DEI bureaucracies.’ —[Duke Political Scientist Timur Kuran]( # # This email was sent to you by [Tablet Magazine](#) Tablet Magazine | P.O. Box 20079 | New York, NY 10001 [Remove me from this list]( | [Forward to a Friend]( You are receiving this email because you signed up at our website, www.tabletmag.com. Tablet Magazine P.O. Box 20079 New York, NY 10001 USA Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp [Mailchimp Email Marketing](