People of the Wall
Yonathan Mizrachi on lives affected by the Separation Wall Yonathan Mizrachi worked for the Antiquities Authority during the construction of the Separation Wall. These excerpts come from his book,...
View ArticleContested Sites
Any intellectual practice in Israel entails both the representation of politics and the politics of representation. The ideological implications of practising archaeology in Jerusalem are as...
View ArticleSymposium – Israel’s Arab Citizens
Israel’s Arab citizens comprise 18% of its population yet have languished on the margins of Israeli society for decades. Failed peace talks and political stalemates have convinced a growing number that...
View ArticleExodus Complexidus
Shalom Auslander wonders whether God and political leaders are as hopeless as each other. It is Moses season in America. There are Moses on the radio and Moses on TV. Followers of one Moses hand out...
View ArticleHidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger
Comments from an incendiary discussion between Nadine Gordiner and Amos Oz The International Writers Festival in Jerusalem was a week of encounter and discovery. Comments from the incendiary discussion...
View ArticleJewish Self-Hatred : Myth or Reality ?
Those who level the charge obviously have no doubts. So much so that it’s deployed as the ‘killer fact’: to be called a self-hating Jew explains everything. No more need be said. Self-hatred means...
View ArticleTeaching Arabic in Israel : A Linguistic Challenge in Majority–Minority...
Teaching spoken Arabic to Jewish schoolchildren in Israel needs to be prioritised if the next generation have any hope of peaceful co-existence with their neighbours. Maya Popper considers the...
View ArticleDebating the Debate
‘Anglo-Jewry finds its voice’, trumpeted the front page of the Jewish Chronicle during the harrowing days of the Gaza bombardment. What voice exactly was this? What was it saying? More importantly, for...
View ArticleReform or Die by Hagai Segal
It may be growing political stagnation and instability — not Iran or Hamas — that threatens the future existence of the Jewish state. And history provides few grounds for optimism.
View ArticleBil’in, My Village
It was mid December 2004 when the bulldozers first showed up in my village Bil’in. Without my knowing it, this was the opening salvo for what would become one of the longest and most influential...
View ArticleThrough the Looking Glass
A few weeks ago I stood by the tomb of Abraham in Hebron hearing the recitation of the amidah, the rhythm of those familiar words of prayer suddenly accompanied by those of a Jewish poet that came to...
View ArticleNot in Our Name: Religious Activism in Sheikh Jarrah
If you happened to walk past the tiny Othman Ibn-Affan street on a Friday evening, you might have been struck by a rather uncommon event: a large group of Palestinians of all ages and left-wing Israeli...
View ArticleWhat is Our Security?
On the self-destructive quest to feel secure ‘Security. A word that these days seems simultaneously both to conceal so much and to reveal so much.’ – John Berger A man is told that he will die from a...
View ArticleDreams of Utopia
On the inter-war Jewish choice between Zionism and Communism Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin, two great Jewish intellectuals of the early twentieth century and lifelong friends, took opposing sides...
View ArticleWalking the Wire
HBO's hit drama bypasses individualism to expose the systems that fail urban America
View ArticleA New Voice for Israel
by Jeremy Ben-Ami Palgrave Macmillan. 2011 Jeremy Ben-Ami is a first rate political operator. In four short years he has made J Street a $5 million organisation and successfully built a Washington...
View ArticleTwo of a Kind
As The Palestinians Prepare to Declare Independence, the parallels between Israel and Palestine appear more striking
View ArticleFrom Oligarch to Icon
The plight of Mikhail Khodorkovsky raises questions about the place of Russian Jews today
View ArticleNon Jewish Jews
The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics By Gilad Atzmon Zero Books 2011 Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights By David Landy Zed Books 2011 So contested has the issue of antisemitism...
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