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    Essay

    Israel Then and Now: Tel Aviv, Secu­ri­ty, and the Kibbutz

    Jes­samyn Hope
    August 5, 2015
    Essay

    Israel Then and Now: 6 Big Changes Since 1994 (Part I)

    Jes­samyn Hope is the author of Safe­keep­ing, which has received crit­i­cal acclaim from The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, and Tablet Mag­a­zine. She will be blog­ging…
    Jes­samyn Hope
    August 3, 2015
    Essay

    Street-Cor­ner Soci­ol­o­gy in South Williamsburg

    Ear­li­er this week, John Ben­ditt pon­dered whether or not Proust was Jew­ish and wrote about iden­ti­ty and writ­ing. The Boat­mak­er is his debut nov­el. He has been blog­ging…
    John Ben­ditt
    July 24, 2015
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    Head­lines: Halachic Debates of Cur­rent Events
    Dovid Lichtenstein
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    Then Comes Mar­riage: Unit­ed States v. Wind­sor and the Defeat of DOMA
    Rober­ta Kaplan
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    Faith Ed.: Teach­ing About Reli­gion In an Age of Intolerance
    Lin­da K. Wertheimer
    Essay

    Rad­i­cal Islamism’s War Against the Jews: Who Cares? (Part 2)

    In part one of ​“Rad­i­cal Islamism’s War Against the Jews: Who Cares?” Michael C. Kotzin wrote about rad­i­cal Islam and the Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty. Today read part two of this…
    Michael C. Kotzin
    May 6, 2015
    Essay

    Rad­i­cal Islamism’s War Against the Jews: Who Cares? (Part 1)

    Michael C. Kotzin is a long­time Jew­ish com­mu­nal pro­fes­sion­al and for­mer pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture at Tel Aviv Uni­ver­si­ty. He has been an exec­u­tive…
    Michael C. Kotzin
    May 4, 2015
    Essay

    Com­mu­ni­cat­ing the Beauty

    Ear­li­er this week, Rober­ta Rosen­thal Kwall wrote about how on how plu­ral­ism strength­ens Judaism and shared the back­sto­ry behind her newest book, The Myth of the…
    Rober­ta Rosen­thal Kwall
    March 20, 2015
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    Inter­view: Liad Shoham

    by Elise Coop­erJew­ish Book Coun­cil recent­ly spoke with Liad Shoham about his new book, Asy­lum City.Elise Coop­er: I didn’t know Israel has an ille­gal…
    Elise Coop­er
    January 20, 2015
    Essay

    World Zion­ism and Paris’s Per­son­al and Polit­i­cal Patterns

    Roger Cohen is a colum­nist for The New York Times, where he has worked since 1990: as a cor­re­spon­dent in Paris and Berlin, and as bureau chief in the Balka­ns…
    Roger Cohen
    January 19, 2015
    Essay

    The Fight for Jew­ish Fem­i­nism in Israel

    Post­ed by Nat BernsteinMon­day night, a group of Jew­ish stu­dents and pro­fes­sion­als in their 20s gath­ered in the com­mon room of the new­ly opened Moishe House of the…
    Nat Bern­stein
    November 11, 2014
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    The New Amer­i­can Zionism
    Theodore Sasson
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    The Just Mar­ket: Torah’s Response to the Cri­sis of the Mod­ern Economy
    Jonathan Brandow
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    Viral Hate: Con­tain­ing Its Spread on the Internet
    Abraham H. Foxman & Christopher Wolf
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    The War With­in: Israel’s Ultra-Ortho­dox Threat to Democ­ra­cy and the Nation
    Yuval Elizur and Lawrence Malkin
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