Israel, the Nation State of the Jewish People?
Simon Rabinovitch and Ruth Calderon discuss identity, equality, and the Jewish nation-state bill Between December 2014 and October 2015 Marginalia ran the “Defining
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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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MRBlog | What Jews Kvetch About When They Kvetch About Bernie Sanders
By Sandra Fox How the Democratic candidate for President is the newest pretext for an old debate over acceptable American Jewish identity In
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A Conversation with Tzipi Livni
Simon Rabinovitch speaks with Tzipi Livni about the meaning of a Jewish and democratic state and Israel’s prospects for passing a nation-state law
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First Impressions #44: Ranen Omer-Sherman
Dave Krueger talks with Ranen Omer-Sherman about his new book Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film. Omer-Sherman is the
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Nathan Abrams
Kristian Petersen talks with Nathan Abrams, Professor at Bangor University and member of the Advisory Board of MRB, about Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism in
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Displaced Anxiety: Medieval Christian Representations of the Jew and Christian Self-Reflection – By Deeana Klepper
Deeana Klepper on Sara Lipton’s Dark Mirror The past few years have seen a stunning increase in violent attacks directed against Jews and Jewish
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Job the German: A Mystery Play. – A Translation by Scott C. Jones
Scott C. Jones’s translation of Kurt Eggers’s Das Spiel von Job dem Deutschen. Ein Mysterium. Scott C. Jones’s Introduction Kurt Eggers’s Das Spiel von Job dem
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Das Spiel von Job dem Deutschen. Ein Mysterium. – By Kurt Eggers
Kurt Eggers’s Das Spiel von Job dem Deutschen. Ein Mysterium. Scott C. Jones’s Introduction Scott C. Jones’s Translation, Job the German: A Mystery Play. Berlin-Südende:
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A Manual on How Not to Write a Constitution – By Alexander Yakobson
Alexander Yakobson in Defining Israel: A Forum on Recent Attempts to Determine Israel’s Character [This essay is part of Defining Israel: A Forum on Recent
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