Allison, Noah & Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.

Lousy Leftists Lack Loyalty

We mull over a new poll finding that almost one in two Israeli Jews think that leftists are not loyal to Israel.

Tenured Traitors, or Professors of Perfidy

We discuss the Minister of Education's appointment of an ethicist to write rules governing when and how professors talk politics in their college classrooms; is this censorship or civility?

Double-Crossing Double X, or The Unbearable Lightness of Cyber-Sexism and On-Line Assholery

We ask what explains the spleen and bile, vilely aimed at women, especially politicians, on the Hebrew Internet.

All songs by Eliad: Ma She-Yesh Matok Kshemarli Linshom, with Shimon Buskila