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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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Criticism of Israel
Disapproval towards the Israeli government
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Criticism of Israel[1][2][3] is a subject of journalistic and scholarly commentary and research within the scope of international relations theory, expressed in terms of political science. Israel has faced international criticism since its establishment in 1948 relating to a variety of issues, many of which are centered around human rights violations in its occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Israel has been criticized for issues surrounding its establishment when most of Mandatory Palestine's Arab population fled or were expelled in 1948, the conduct of its armed forces in the Arab–Israeli conflict, establishment and expansion of illegalIsraeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, its treatment of Palestinians, and the blockade of the Gaza Strip,[4] with its impact on the economy of the Palestinian territories, the country's nuclear weapons program,[5] and its targeted killings program.[6][7] Other criticized long-standing issues include: the refusal to allow post-war Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, and th
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Letters
Letters Fall 2014
Cardinal Dulles' Revelation, Did Sacks Write a Sermon?, Philosopher v. Endeavour, & More
Shaking Up Israel’s Kosher Empowerment System
Timothy D. Lytton, Motti Talias
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Neither Newspaper columnist nor Enemy: Israel wring the EU
Leonidas Donskis
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The Morals of Jealous Edge
Asa Kasher
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Thoroughly Up to date Maimonides?
Lawrence Kaplan
Three recent books elucidate what, if anything, Maimonides has to limitation to unkind today.
Muscular Judaism
Todd M. Endelman
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Zionism’s Consigned to oblivion Father
Allan Arkush
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