The Tel Aviv Review

Kafka in the West Bank: The bureaucracy of the occupation

Dr. Yael Berda of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, discusses Israeli surveillance of the Palestinian population in the West Bank.

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Armenia’s 30-Year Genocide

Professor Benny Morris, one of the foremost historians of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has ventured into a new territory.

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Going south: Movement and social upheaval in the Confederate States

Dr. Yael Sternhell of Tel Aviv University analyzes the interplay between physical movement of populations and the redrawing of the social and political order.

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Russian renaissance: Jewish renewal in post-Soviet Russia

Dr. Simon Parizhsky of Moscow’s Eshkolot Center busts a few myths about the “Dark Ages” of the Soviet Union and the “enlightenment” of the post-Communist era.

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Rule or exception? The political and legal implications of emergencies

Dr. Karin Loevy and Dr. Yoav Mehozay discuss how states of emergency are far more prevalent than we’d like to admit, and the repercussions for democracy that this situation entails.

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Bridges over troubled water: Literary translations as basis of binationalism

Professor Yehuda Shenhav of Tel Aviv University discusses how literary translations can outperform scholarship in bringing about positive social change.

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What did Jewish rituals look like 2,000 years ago?

Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies Robert Goldenberg at Stony Brook University discusses the Jewish rituals of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and why a practicing Jew today will unlikely recognize any of them.

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Proto-Mizrahim: Oriental Jews and Arabs in pre-state Israel

Dr. Abigail Jacobson and Dr. Moshe Naor discuss their co-authored book “Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine.”

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Russell’s teapot and kiddush cup: Between Jewish and Western philosophies

Orthodox rabbi, educator, and philosopher Dr. Sam Lebens talks about his eclectic borrowing from Jewish and Western traditions, and his inability to separate between the two.

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Tel Aviv Review Extra: US Jews and Israel in the age of Trump

Prof. Dov Waxman joins hosts Gilad Halpern and Dahlia Scheindlin to discuss how the divisiveness of President Trump is going to affect the already divided Jewish American community.

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