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Ancient Jerusalem Reborn: The Discovery of the City of David—and the Palestinian Effort to Erase It
By Doron Spielman, Jonathan SilverRead or watch the conversation between Doron Spielman and Jonathan Silver.
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Monthly Essay ·
The Parking Lot That Determined the Future of Jerusalem’s Past
By Doron SpielmanIn the 1860s, a British explorer discovered the City of David. Fifteen years ago, the Palestinian Authority tried to stop those who wanted to follow in his footsteps.
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The Once and Future Temple, Part I
By Marc Michael EpsteinWhy do Christian depictions of the Jewish Temple look like the Dome of the Rock, the 7th-century Muslim structure built on that site?
Observation ·
Menachem Begin’s Covenantal Zionism
By Rabbi Meir SoloveichikWhat Begin's 1972 elegy for the diaspora reveals about a worldview unique among Israel's founders.
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“We Were All Born in Jerusalem”: A Never-Before-Translated Speech by Menachem Begin
By Menachem Begin, Neil RogachevskyWhat the future prime minister of Israel had to say about his past and present homelands.
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The Consequences of a World without Constraints
By Eric CohenIn a world without a creator God Who actually cares about us and about what we do, reducing pain becomes the primary thing that matters. And that leads to all sorts of deformities.
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The Disastrous Banishment of the Hebraic Spirit from American Public Life
By Wilfred M. McClayAccompanied by massive social pathologies that it can neither contain nor reverse, the emerging secular order is itself unsustainable.
Monthly Essay ·
The Message from Jerusalem
By Eric CohenAmerican society faces a deep crisis of meaning to which the city, and the idea, of Jerusalem has an answer. It is needed by Jews, and as much or more by Christians.
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Don’t Entrust Jerusalem to the Muslims or the Jews (or the French)
By Douglas J. FeithThat sentiment, held by British officials in Mandate Palestine, was the origin of the idea that the city should instead be internationalized.
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The Lessons of Previous Misadventures in “International Control”
By Jeremy RabkinWho remembers the Free State of Danzig?
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The Many Incoherences and Hypocrisies of International Law on Jerusalem
By Eugene KontorovichThere's a quadruple standard at work: a double standard within a double standard.
Observation ·
The Bread Maker of Jerusalem
By Edward GrossmanOn a visit with the proprietor of Russell’s Bakery and his multi-ethnic, multi-political, and multi-religious staff, the story of Israel unfolds in microcosm.
Observation ·
The Fantasy of an International Jerusalem
By Martin KramerOne-hundred years ago, over a lunch, the internationalization of Jerusalem became irrelevant—and it remains so.
Observation ·
In Photos: The Story of the Liberation of Jerusalem a Century Ago
By Lenny Ben-DavidThis year marks the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem's unification in the Six-Day War. It also marks the 100th anniversary of a fierce World War I battle that saved the city from destruction.
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Not “Your” City—”Everyone’s” City
By Edward RothsteinHow the Met, in its exhibition Jerusalem 1000-1400 and in its defense against critics of that exhibition, exploits the vocabulary of openness.
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Rewriting History at the Met
The Metropolitan Museum's Jerusalem 1000-1400 masked centuries of struggle for power and survival in the Holy Land—and effaced both the presence and the subjugation of its Jews.
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Jerusalem of (Fool’s) Gold
By Robert IrwinThe Met's presentation of Jerusalem as a vibrant trade hub and cultural melting pot is seductive, but false.
Monthly Essay ·
Jerusalem Syndrome at the Met
By Edward RothsteinAn exhibition on the diverse multiculturalism of medieval Jerusalem has been ecstatically received. There's just one problem: the vision of history it promotes is a myth.
Observation ·
Jerusalem Is Not Destroyed
By Atar HadariOn the Book of Lamentations.
Observation ·
Israel Apart
By Neil RogachevskyIsrael, needless to say, is not an apartheid state. But—in a distinctly Jewish way—it is a state apart.
Observation ·
Abraham Isaac Kook Receives the Call
For a visionary rabbi in London, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 signified nothing less than the advent of the messianic era.
Observation ·
Their Tragic Land
By Ruth R. WisseTwo acclaimed new books about Israel betray a disquieting lack of moral confidence in their subject and its story
