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Phew. From a Scottish Jewish Londoner.
Just as I began to pick myself up off the floor, the next thing I knew my identity as a Scottish Jew was forced into the spotlight...
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The Not So Civil Society
NGO's, the last voice of opposition in Israel, are now under threat from anti-democratic laws
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Liberal Zionism: A Contradiction in Terms?
REBECCA STEINFELD Liberal Zionism is in vogue. It underpins the thinking of groups like J-Street, Yachad, and the New Israel Fund, as well as the writings of figures like Peter…
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Non Jewish Jews
The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics
By Gilad Atzmon
Zero Books 2011 Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights
By David Landy
Zed Books 2011
So contested…
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From Oligarch to Icon
The plight of Mikhail Khodorkovsky raises questions about the place of Russian Jews today
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Two of a Kind
As The Palestinians Prepare to Declare Independence, the parallels between Israel and Palestine appear more striking
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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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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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What is Our Security?
On the self-destructive quest to feel secure
‘Security. A word that these days seems simultaneously both to conceal so much and to reveal so much.’ – John Berger A man is told…
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