Quarantine wasn’t invented for corona. At the start of statehood, Israel encouraged mass immigration while seeking to prevent mass disease by putting immigrants through a quarantine camp. Rhona Seidelman, a historian of medicine and public health, examines the camp’s legacy both remembered and forgotten

Dr Laura Wharton discusses her book “Is the Party Over? How Israel Lost its Social Agenda,” analyzing the ideological and institutional decline of the Labor Party up until the 1970s

Prof. Daniel Statman discusses his new co-authored book “State and Religion is Israel,” a joint legal and philosophical attempt to conceptualize the role of religion in democratic regimes

In “Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America,” Eyal Press takes a tough look at the people squeezed in the middle of America’s moral pyramid

Although he came to prominence in Israel, as the undisputed emblem of the far-right, Rabbi Meir Kahane was a quintessential American Jew, claims Prof. Shaul Magid in his new book

After reporting on the cruelest wars of the late 20th century, journalist and cultural critic David Rieff concluded that remembering history was no defense against repeating it, and could even be a culprit

Dr Yair Wallach discusses the changing nature and meaning of text – from stone inscriptions to street names to business cards – in Jerusalem of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Timothy Brennan’s new biography of Edward Said, the feted Palestinian-American scholar, explores the different aspects of a quintessential 20th-century intellectual

Prof. Dan Rabinowitz discusses the role of the Middle East as both a major generator and a primary victim of climate change

Prof. Amichai Cohen explains the changing role of the High Court of Justice in maintaining the checks and balances of Israeli democracy