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Back to SearchThe Broke Woke
Batya Ungar-Sargon believes woke culture has created a smokescreen of racial identity politics that obfuscates the real force tearing American societ…
4 years, 9 months ago
Israel's Ellis Island, Behind Barbed Wire
Quarantine wasn't invented for corona. At the start of statehood, Israel encouraged mass immigration while seeking to prevent mass disease by putting…
4 years, 9 months ago
Labor's Love's Lost
Dr Laura Wharton, a Jerusalem City Council member for Meretz and an adjunct lecturer at the Hebrew University's Department of Political Science, disc…
4 years, 9 months ago
Religiously Democratic?
Prof. Daniel Statman, head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Haifa and a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, where he is…
4 years, 10 months ago
But Somebody Has to Do It
In Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America, Eyal Press takes a tough look at the people squeezed in the middle of Ame…
4 years, 10 months ago
Kahane Lives On
Although he came to prominence in Israel, as the undisputed emblem of the far-right, Rabbi Meir Kahane was a quintessential American Jew, claims Prof…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Past Is Never Dead – But Maybe It Should Be
After reporting on the cruelest wars of the late 20th century, journalist and cultural critic David Rieff concluded that remembering history was no d…
4 years, 10 months ago
A City in Text
Dr Yair Wallach, Senior Lecturer in Israel Studies at SOAS, University of London, discusses his new book A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern J…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Many Faces of Edward Said
Timothy Brennan, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, has published a new biography of Edward Said, the feted Palestin…
4 years, 11 months ago
Climate Change: A Middle Eastern Perspective
Dan Rabinowitz, Professor of Sociology at Tel Aviv University, discusses his new book The Power of Deserts: Climate Change, the Middle East and the P…
4 years, 11 months ago