Dispatches

The 36,000 asylum seekers currently living in Israel are overwhelmingly (92 per cent) from Eritrea and South Sudan. Their reasons for leaving their homes and their countries to…
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Since the first slices of Portnoy’s Complaint  appeared in the 1967 issue of "New American Review" – I was then an Orthodox teenager searching for escape - but later, too, even in…
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Atlanta holds various associations within people’s imagination. For some it is a stark reminder of the civil rights era, for others it signifies a simpler time in which everyday…
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Moral arguments may be invoked by a nation in order to legitimise controversial actions, for better or for worse. Russia, for instance, has argued that its annexation of Crimea was…
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In 2013, I moved from New York City to North Carolina to attend Guilford College. I went from a state where almost nine per cent of the population is Jewish to a place where many…
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Raoul Wallenberg is remembered as the brave Swede who arrived in Budapest in 1944 to head the Swedish diplomatic mission at a time of intense persecution of Hungarian…
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What if there was a home for Jewish culture and practice in which the motivating question was not, “what do the rules and traditions of Judaism obligate us to do?” But rather, “how…
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Have you ever heard of the man who walked the streets of São Paulo, selling pens and other items that he kept in his suit? It was best for business, he thought, and for making…
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When Israelis try to explain their country, they invariably end up with “it’s complicated”. The situation for LGBT people in Israel is equally vexed. Despite a reputation for being…
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They say you should never meet your heroes because they’ll always disappoint. Perhaps they should add: never write a book about them either. Woody Allen has been my comic and…
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