Shlomo Sand‘s book The Invention of the Jewish People has come out in English translation. It is intentionally provocative and explicitly political, and it has
The latest Sh’ma has hit the newsstands and is also available in a wonderful new digital formal. All ’bout Jews and Guns. David Myers has
Shaul Magid has an interesting and provocative piece up at Zeek about the J Street conference. “I love Israel.” What exactly does that mean? I
For the hillulah* of Reb Shlomo Carlebach. *celebration of the anniversary of his passing.
My good friend Sarah Newman blogged over at TakePart about my daughter’s bat mitzvah at the Shtibl Minyan this past summer. As Sarah writes: What
This year Sh’ma is inaugurating a monthly column in which authors from across the Jewish spectrum address the question: What are the idols that you
Dual loyalty! (Yeah, you know, Elders of Zion, antisemitism, and so on…) Thought that went away? Well, think again. Shaul Magid has a very thoughtful
Ya just can’t make this stuff up… (HT to the JewishJournal.)
So I signed a letter to the Jewish Journal, disagreeing with the lunatic level of outrage against Prof. Neve Gordon from Ben Gurion University. I
Learning Emmanuel Levinas’ Totality and Infinity today with my hevruta, we came across the following statement. “The idea of being overflowing history makes possible existents