The Tel Aviv Review

A different kind of Tzedakah: Organ donation in Jewish law

Zev Farber discusses his latest book “Halakhic Realities: Collected Essays on Brain Death,” showcasing a textbook example of how Jewish law had to adapt to modern realities.

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The 11th lost tribe: Tales of Jewish Sudan

Historian Daisy Abboudi recounts the little known history of a small and short-lived Jewish community in Sudan.

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Hasidism 2.0: Breslav and the secret of its newfound appeal

Rabbi Professor Art Green discusses the Hasidic sect that in the space of just several decades has become a major draw for many Jews around the world.

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The glass mechitza: Fighting for women’s rights, from the courthouse to shul

Ariela Migdal, a women’s rights lawyer formerly with the American Civil Liberties Union, analyzes the status of women in the United States and within the Jewish community.

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The last fight let us face: Israeli communist commemoration of Spain’s civil war

Dr. Amir Locker-Biletzky, a post-doctoral fellow at Concordia University’s Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, discusses how the Israeli Communist Party looked back on the participation of its members in the iconic battle against Fascism.

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Indecision makers: How Israel forces asylum seekers into legal limbo

Dr. Ruvi Ziegler of the University of Reading discusses Israels half-hearted treatment of African asylum seekers over the last decade, and the mark they have left on Israel’s migration law.

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Lies, damned lies and scholarship

Professor Martin Kramer of Shalem College discusses his new collection of essays seeking to debunk myths and biases within scholarship on Israel and the Middle East.

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Israel’s grand economic reform that never was

Dr. Ronen Mendelkern discusses the 1962 New Economic Policy, a plan that sought to liberalize the highly interventionist Israeli economy of the time, that ended up in the bin.

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Retracing Zionism’s liberal roots

Professor Chaim Gans, a legal and political philosopher at Tel Aviv University, discusses his new book A Political Theory for the Jewish People, which seeks to pave a liberal third way between Zionism and post-Zionism.

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Back when Harlem was Jewish

Prof. Jeffrey S. Gurock discusses his latest book “The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline and Revival of a Jewish Community” with host Gilad Halpern and new co-host Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin.

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