How a Tiny Change to Voting Laws Created Israel’s Political Crisis
It’s a basic rule of negotiations: the most strident party is inevitably the one with the upper hand.
October 20, 2022
In America, Jewish Studies Suffers from a De-Judaization of Scholarship and Disavowal of National Particularism
Fear of being “Jewishly focused.”
In 2020, while participating in an online panel on the current state of the study of Jewish history, sponsored by the U.S.-based Association for Jewish Studies, the Yeshiva University professor Joshua Karlip got the sense that something was not right in his field:
October 20, 2022
To Build on the Abraham Accords, Look to Southeast Asia
What southwest Asia can learn from another alliance.
The U.S. Shouldn’t Be Sheltering Former Iranian Officials
Academic positions allow them to establish themselves as experts.
In America, Jewish Studies Suffers from a De-Judaization of Scholarship and Disavowal of National Particularism
Fear of being “Jewishly focused.”
The Eccentric Canadian Rabbi Who Popularized the Golem Legend and Translated the Zohar
While forging sources and peddling quack cures.