Two of a Kind
As The Palestinians Prepare to Declare Independence, the parallels between Israel and Palestine appear more striking
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Misreading Roth
Is The Controversy that Follows Philip Roth Justified? Why does controversy seem to follow Philip Roth around? His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, touched off a riot of a…
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A New Voice for Israel
by Jeremy Ben-Ami
Palgrave Macmillan. 2011 Jeremy Ben-Ami is a first rate political operator. In four short years he has made J Street a $5 million organisation and…
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Walking the Wire
HBO's hit drama bypasses individualism to expose the systems that fail urban America
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The Complete History of the Jewish People Starting with David Schneider
I’m old. I write to you now as an old person. Amend the census, tick the age box marked ‘35 to what-does-it-matter-he’s-pastit-now’
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Dispatches
The Big Cheese
The wild, top-hat-and-jeans-clad compére jumped onto the stage to announce the 20 semi-finalists of the second annual New York Cheesemonger Invitational. The…
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On Packing My Library
Away go the books on the Hapsburgs. The Baedekers for Austria and France, the sale catalogues for auctions in Paris, marked up with the prices realised for family furniture, the…
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Dreams of Utopia
On the inter-war Jewish choice between Zionism and Communism Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin, two great Jewish intellectuals of the early twentieth century and lifelong…
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