Part of what animates the two sides in Israel’s current judicial-reform crisis has to do with the proposals for reform that the Knesset is debating. But the crisis is not only about the government’s proposal to reform the judiciary. It is also a proxy for a larger cultural and sociological argument that pits different Israeli sectors against each another. Critics of the current reform tend to be in the political center and the political left, to be more secular or at least critical of Israel’s Orthodox rabbinic establishment, and to be comfortable in the vision of Israel passed down by its Ashkenazi founding generation. Supporters of the current reform, meanwhile, tend to be on the political right, to be more religious and more accommodating of the rabbinate, and to belong to a coalition of Israelis with roots in the Arab Middle East, North Africa, and, in part, the Russian-speaking world. Yehoshua Pfeffer is uniquely positioned to discuss all sides of the issue. A rabbi and the editor of Tzarich Iyun, a magazine of haredi ideas, Pfeffer also clerked on Israel’s Supreme Court. He recently wrote an essay in Tzarich Iyun called “No Longer a Minority: Behind the Veil of Israel’s Public Unrest.” He joins Mosaic editor Jonathan Silver to discuss that essay and the broader schisms in Israeli society today. Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble.