Arts and Culture

Songs of Zion

Yehuda Halevi is one of the most significant figures in Jewish literary history. Frequently cited as a proto-Zionist religious thinker, Hillel Halkin’s new biography of the medieval Jewish poet reminds us that this is only a part of his greater story.

News and Politics

Democracy Starts in the Occupied Territories

By Mya Guarnieri

Responding to Im Tirzu’s attack on the New Israel Fund, Mya Guarnieri analyzes the growing threat of the Occupation to Israeli democracy.

Arts and Culture

Slavery and the Holocaust

By Ori Z. Soltes

A look at the Idea Coalition curated Slavery and the Holocaust exhibition, currently being held at Philadelphia’s Vivant Art Collection.

Arts and Culture

Tzit Tzit Fiber Art and Jewish Identity

By Ben Schachter

Slideshow of recent contemporary Jewish textile exhibition in Pennsylvania, curated by Ben Schachter.

News and Politics

The End of Hasbara

By Moshe Yaroni

Israel is a synonym for complexity. For decades, its supporters have been asked to speak out on Israel’s behalf, to explain why it rightly resists conventional modes of explanation. Moshe Yaroni on a new study of the Jewish state’s foreign critics, and its urging us to once again speak truth to her defamers.

Arts and Culture

All the Taste Without the Flavor: Charlotte Gainsbourg's IRM

By Charlie Bertsch

Collaborating with Beck, who wrote most of the songs, Charlotte Gainsbourg produces tasteful alternative rock with wide-ranging appeal on IRM. But the music is too cautious, resulting in an album that’s easy to like but hard to love.

Arts and Culture

Avatar Meets Garden of Eden

By Angela Himsel

Is Avatar just another Lion King? Or, even worse, a manipulative mythic replay of the Garden of Eden?

News and Politics

The Emerging One-State Consensus

By Nathaniel Berman

Since 1967, Israel has imposed a one-state solution upon the Palestinians. Jewish progressives, however, have historically insisted upon the principle “two states for two peoples.” According to Nathaniel Berman, this ideal has slowly devolved into an ideology, disguising and rationalizing a single state status quo.

Faith and Practice

Saving Jews From John Hagee

By Rachel Tabachnick

Over the last four decades, Evangelicals infiltrated Zionist circles, convincing naïve Israelis and Jews that they were friends. Manipulating Jewish desire for respect and repentance, today, their support for Israel is considered indispensable. And, to a growing number of Jews, suspect.

Arts and Culture

Elementos

By Maxi Kohan

Fotografia de Maxi Kohan.