“…there is ample room for both people to live next to each other, with each other, in peace”
Shavit makes it sounds like Palestine was a small home that was taken, that...
“After decades in which Israeli and Diaspora Jews were raised on the belief that the refugees left of their own volition, Shavit models a different narrative tack”
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Shavit offers new insight into the motivations of Israeli soldiers and officers involved in...“The surreal juxtaposition is what gives many soldiers trouble adjusting back to civilian life”
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One day you’re in a sniper hole with your crosshairs on a man, the...Koheleth’s The very strangeness…in its literary and religious context in the Bible is part of its fascination”
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The very strangeness of the work in its literary and religious context in the...“American culture rides forward on stories about sudden fame and bold ascent…TED is a display case for such stories”
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American culture rides forward on stories about sudden fame and bold ascent – the...“the best way to reach Jews who do not feel at home in Judaism is to do compelling Jewish work in public”
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I have always believed that the best way to reach Jews who do not...
“Shabbat, as seen through the Mishnah, does not prescribe actions”
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Shabbat as framed by the opening mishnah of Tractate Shabbat is not something that...Both autism and psychopathy entail a lack of empathy. Psychologists, though, distinguish between….
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Both autism and psychopathy entail a lack of empathy. Psychologists, though, distinguish between the...Edgar Bronfman preferred “a serious discussion of texts to song and prayer”
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For myself, prayer and spirituality are not the primary way I connect with Judaism....How one reads Shavit’s chapter on Lydda is a Rorschach test of one’s Israel politics
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One chapter has garnered more attention than others. It is the one serialized in...