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Jerusalem

Latest Mosaic Content for Jerusalem

  1. Response ·

    Ancient Jerusalem Reborn: The Discovery of the City of David—and the Palestinian Effort to Erase It

    By Doron Spielman, Jonathan Silver

    Read or watch the conversation between Doron Spielman and Jonathan Silver.

    Ancient Jerusalem Reborn: The Discovery of the City of David—and the Palestinian Effort to Erase It
  2. Monthly Essay ·

    The Parking Lot That Determined the Future of Jerusalem’s Past

    By Doron Spielman

    In 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.

    The Parking Lot That Determined the Future of Jerusalem’s Past
  3. Observation ·

    The Once and Future Temple, Part I

    By Marc Michael Epstein

    Why do Christian depictions of the Jewish Temple look like the Dome of the Rock, the 7th-century Muslim structure built on that site?

    The Once and Future Temple, Part I
  4. Observation ·

    Menachem Begin’s Covenantal Zionism

    By Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

    What Begin's 1972 elegy for the diaspora reveals about a worldview unique among Israel's founders.

    Menachem Begin’s Covenantal Zionism
  5. Observation ·

    “We Were All Born in Jerusalem”: A Never-Before-Translated Speech by Menachem Begin

    By Menachem Begin, Neil Rogachevsky

    What the future prime minister of Israel had to say about his past and present homelands.

    “We Were All Born in Jerusalem”: A Never-Before-Translated Speech by Menachem Begin
  6. Response ·

    The Consequences of a World without Constraints

    By Eric Cohen

    In 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.

    The Consequences of a World without Constraints
  7. Response ·

    The Disastrous Banishment of the Hebraic Spirit from American Public Life

    By Wilfred M. McClay

    Accompanied by massive social pathologies that it can neither contain nor reverse, the emerging secular order is itself unsustainable.

    The Disastrous Banishment of the Hebraic Spirit from American Public Life
  8. Monthly Essay ·

    The Message from Jerusalem

    By Eric Cohen

    American 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.

    The Message from Jerusalem
  9. Response ·

    Don’t Entrust Jerusalem to the Muslims or the Jews (or the French)

    By Douglas J. Feith

    That sentiment, held by British officials in Mandate Palestine, was the origin of the idea that the city should instead be internationalized.

    Don’t Entrust Jerusalem to the Muslims or the Jews (or the French)
  10. Response ·

    The Lessons of Previous Misadventures in “International Control”

    By Jeremy Rabkin

    Who remembers the Free State of Danzig?

    The Lessons of Previous Misadventures in “International Control”
  11. Response ·

    The Many Incoherences and Hypocrisies of International Law on Jerusalem

    By Eugene Kontorovich

    There's a quadruple standard at work: a double standard within a double standard.

    The Many Incoherences and Hypocrisies of International Law on Jerusalem
  12. Observation ·

    The Bread Maker of Jerusalem

    By Edward Grossman

    On 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.

    The Bread Maker of Jerusalem
  13. Observation ·

    The Fantasy of an International Jerusalem

    By Martin Kramer

    One-hundred years ago, over a lunch, the internationalization of Jerusalem became irrelevant—and it remains so.

    The Fantasy of an International Jerusalem
  14. Observation ·

    In Photos: The Story of the Liberation of Jerusalem a Century Ago

    By Lenny Ben-David

    This 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.

    In Photos: The Story of the Liberation of Jerusalem a Century Ago
  15. Response ·

    Not “Your” City—”Everyone’s” City

    By Edward Rothstein

    How the Met, in its exhibition Jerusalem 1000-1400 and in its defense against critics of that exhibition, exploits the vocabulary of openness.

    Not “Your” City—”Everyone’s” City
  16. Response ·

    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.

    Rewriting History at the Met
  17. Response ·

    Jerusalem of (Fool’s) Gold

    By Robert Irwin

    The Met's presentation of Jerusalem as a vibrant trade hub and cultural melting pot is seductive, but false.

    Jerusalem of (Fool’s) Gold
  18. Monthly Essay ·

    Jerusalem Syndrome at the Met

    By Edward Rothstein

    An 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.

    Jerusalem Syndrome at the Met
  19. Observation ·

    Jerusalem Is Not Destroyed

    By Atar Hadari

    On the Book of Lamentations.

    Jerusalem Is Not Destroyed
  20. Observation ·

    Israel Apart

    By Neil Rogachevsky

    Israel, needless to say, is not an apartheid state. But—in a distinctly Jewish way—it is a state apart.

    Israel Apart
  21. 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.

    Abraham Isaac Kook Receives the Call
  22. Observation ·

    Their Tragic Land

    By Ruth R. Wisse

    Two acclaimed new books about Israel betray a disquieting lack of moral confidence in their subject and its story

    Their Tragic Land