A new book called The Origins of Judaism places the momentous occurrence much later in time than that proposed by most scholars. Is it right?
A newly released academic study hints as much.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews no longer vote in blocs and are now enthusiastic participants in national ideological movements. They may rue the change.
The member of Knesset and architect of the effort to reform Israel’s judiciary speaks about the issue.
Shared myths reveal something elemental about the people who sustain them. A scholar of cultural memory describes the layers of myth that illuminate Israel’s quintessentially modern city.
Why haven’t more American Jews joined the many Asian-American students and their parents protesting a policy reminiscent of the 1920s?
The foreign-policy analyst joins us to talk about his recent essay “Overmatch.”
And could the story of the Tower of Babel actually reflect a dim folk-memory of its breakup?
Until recently, campus BDS resolutions were being used to penalize companies doing business in or with Israel. This week’s podcast guest explains how he helped put a stop to it.
How the Jewish state found itself going to elections yet again, and what reforms might, at last, bring some stability.
The Israeli political analyst joins us to talk about the upcoming election, and the tribal identities that play into it.
If outsiders listen to leaders of the community rather than reformers on the margins, they’ll be more likely to come to agreement. Just look to Israel, where a new precedent was set.
I’ve been spared an encounter with the neologism until lately. But, frankly, now that I have made its acquaintance, I find it idiotic. (And don’t get me started about “goysplaining.”)
A conversation about how small magazines develop and publish big Jewish ideas.
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