A State of Their Own: Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights
Gil Rubin reviews James Loeffler’s Rooted Cosmopolitans In a 1938 speech in Prague, Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, founder and leader of the right-wing Zionist
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Jewish History
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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Feeling Sorry the Wrong Way – by Anthony Bash
Anthony Bash on David Lambert’s How Repentance Became Biblical In some ways, regret, repentance, and remorse are popular emotions in the modern world.
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Problems of Poverty and the Recently Impoverished – By John Mandsager
John Mandsager on Gregg Gardner’s The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism According to Suetonius (Lives of the Twelve Caesars, II.91), once
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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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The Sagacious Scholar and the Censor – By Adam Ferziger
Adam Ferziger on Marc Shapiro’s Changing the Immutable Halfway through this exceedingly erudite and equally disturbing study, Marc Shapiro tells a story that
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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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Being Frum in Medieval Ashkenaz – By Julie Mell
Julie Mell on Elisheva Baumgarten’s Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz Long before second-wave feminism brought egalitarian practices into Judaism, medieval women were taking
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