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Letters
Letters Fall 2014
Cardinal Dulles' Inspiration, Did Sacks Write a Sermon?, Heidegger v. Reason, & More
Shaking Up Israel’s Kosher Certification System
Timothy D. Lytton, Motti Talias
On belly dancing, big government, and the issues of synagogue and state raised by recent attempts at kashrut reform in Israel.
Features
Neither Friend nor Enemy: Israel in the EU
Leonidas Donskis
After five years at the European Parliament, the author reflects on Israel's place in the discourse of the EU's chattering (and legislating) class.
The Ethics of Protective Edge
Asa Kasher
How does one deal with Hamas, an enemy that has eliminated any trace of the distinction between combatants and non-combatants, except for the purposes of propaganda?
Reviews
Thoroughly Modern Maimonides?
Lawrence Kaplan
Three recent books elucidate what, if anything, Maimonides has to say to us today.
Muscular Judaism
Todd M. Endelman
The history of Jewish boxers such as Daniel Mendoza in England is as central to understanding the entry of Jews into European society as the better-known and much-researched history of Jewish salonnières and intellectuals in Berlin and Vienna.
Zionism’s Forgotten Father
Allan Arkush
Nathan Birnbaum, one of Zionism's early leaders, looked like Herzl and w
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Old-New Debate
Allan Arkush
Theodor Herzl is indisputably Israel’s principal Founding Father. He was not the first person in modern times to call for the creation of a Jewish state, but he summoned into existence the movement that made it possible and marked out the path that it was to pursue. When he first published The Jewish State in 1896, the proto-Zionist groups in…
Ordinary Memory
Samuel Moyn
“I wanted to write an integrated history,” Saul Friedländer told a magazine in 2007, in an interview marking the long-awaited concluding installment of his Holocaust study Nazi Germany and the Jews. By “integrated history,” Friedländer meant one in which the designs of genocidal perpetrators were fused with the personal testimony of the victims. “Business-as-usual history flattens the interpretation of mass…
Poems Like Mountains
Margot Lurie
“I was a year old,” Rivka Miriam says, “and my father would hold me in his arms and throw me up and down and I laughed and laughed and laughed. Each time he threw me up he’d yell in Yiddish ‘Rivkela Rivkela where’s Savta?’ ‘Killed.’ ‘Rivkela Rivkela where’s Miriam?’ ‘Killed.’ ‘Rivkela Rivkela where’s Chaim?’ ‘Killed.’ He’d say all the names…
Prospects for American Judaism
Lance J. Sussman
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