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Essay

The Rel­e­vance of Ruth to Shavuot

Ilana Pardes
May 19, 2023
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Fic­tion
Lemons in the Fog
Chaya Rochel Zimmerman
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Fic­tion
The Salt Line
Youval Shimoni; Michael Sharp, trans;
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Non­fic­tion
Kreisky, Israel and Jew­ish Identity
Daniel Aschheim
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Non­fic­tion
Israel’s Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence: The His­to­ry and Polit­i­cal The­o­ry of the Nation’s Found­ing Moment
Neil Rogachevsky
Dov Zigler
Excerpt

Impos­si­ble Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Cre­ation, Has Israel Ful­filled Its Founders’ Dreams?

Daniel Gordis
April 24, 2023
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Non­fic­tion
Impos­si­ble Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Cre­ation, Has Israel Ful­filled Its Founders’ Dreams?
Daniel Gordis
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Chil­dren’s
The Mir­a­cle Seed
Mar­tin Lemelman
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Fic­tion
Once We Were Home
Jen­nifer Rosner
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Non­fic­tion
Bibi: My Story
Ben­jamin Netanyahu
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Non­fic­tion
After­math: Com­ing of Age on Three Continents
Annette Libeskind Berkovits
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Non­fic­tion
Israel’s Moment: Inter­na­tion­al Sup­port for and Oppo­si­tion to Estab­lish­ing the Jew­ish State, 1945 – 1949
Jef­frey Herf
Essay

‘Who Mur­dered Arloso­roff?’: Exam­in­ing an Unsolved 1933 Killing in Palestine

Jonathan Wil­son
February 13, 2023
Fiction—From the Journal

Poland Itin­er­ary, Class 3B

Lee­or Ohayon
February 7, 2023
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Non­fic­tion
The No-State Solu­tion: A Jew­ish Manifesto
Daniel Boyarin
Essay

When the Out­sider Comes Back Inside: Writ­ing an Israeli Mys­tery Series as an Amer­i­can Author

Ellen Frankel
January 30, 2023
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