Jews and The Red Scare: The Mythology of Judeo-Bolshevism
Elissa Bemporad on Paul Hanebrink Well-known scholars of Soviet history have failed to understand Jewish experience under communism in the early twentieth century.
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Modern Jewish History
Jewish Identity and A Divided America
Shari Rabin on Michael Hoberman Public consciousness, popular culture, and historical scholarship have lavished attention and praise on the Lower East Side immigrant
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Israel and Palestine in the Age of Trump
Yair Wallach on Seth Anziska In early June 2018, in an interview to the BBC in London, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed relaxed
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Heidegger and the Holocaust
Re-Thinking Martin Heidegger, the Jews, and Judaism: Shaul Magid on Elliot Wolfson’s The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other Martin
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Jewish City Values – by Rachel Gordan
“Wait, is he talking about us?” In one of the many highlights/lowlights of this presidential election season, presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz accused
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Jews and Muslims in France: Rethinking a History of Conflict, Colonialism, and Coexistence – by Rachel Eva Schley
Rachel Schley on Ethan B. Katz’s The Burdens of Brotherhood For well over a decade there has been an active debate about the
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Out of This World: Virtual Reality and Philosophical Talmud – By Zachary Braiterman
Zachary Braiterman on Sergey Dolgopolski’s The Open Past As a “religious” document, the Babylonian Talmud is as strange as it gets. A web
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Here, There, and Everywhere – By Amit Gvaryahu
Amit Gvaryahu on on Richard Kalmin’s Migrating Tales When ISIS recently took over the historic city of Palmyra on the Silk Road, they
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Vichy Syndrome Revisited – By Sophie B. Roberts
Sophie B. Roberts on Daniel Lee’s Pétain’s Jewish Children A century after France became the first country in Europe to grant Jews citizenship,
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A History of Violence – By Arie Dubnov
Arie Dubnov on Hillel Cohen’s Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict If Israel/Palestine is to be compared to a powder keg, Jerusalem/al-Quds, no
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