The Tel Aviv Review
Because It’s There: Shifting Discourses in the ‘Temple Mount Faithful’ Movement
Dr. Shlomo Fischer discusses the evolution, from the 1970s until today, of attempts to lift the ban prohibiting Jewish entrance to the Temple Mount.
Read MoreAmerican Exceptionalism: Why the Nazis Looked up to US Race Laws
James Q. Whitman of Yale University began asking why Hitler referred to American legal precedents. What he discovered shocked him.
Read MoreThe New Sepharad: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Salonica
Stanford professor Aron Rodrigue discusses the history of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community, which became the largest Jewish city in Europe before Nazi occupation.
Read MoreIsrael, Slipping Through my Fingers
Larry Derfner discusses the chronicle of his twin ideological journey he’s made alongside Israel since 1985.
Read MoreAttempting to Solve the Scholem Enigma
Hebrew University’s Dr. Amir Engel discusses his book about Gershom Scholem, one of Israel’s first public intellectuals.
Read MorePortnoy and I: Philip Roth’s Great American Moment
Essayist and Lecturer Bernard Avishai discusses how a Philip Roth novel changed his life and that of an American generation.
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Unchain My Heart: Shulem Deen’s Breakaway From Radical Hasidism
Shulem Deen’s book “All Who Go Do Not Return” is on the extreme insularity of Hasidic life and his journey to the secular world.
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