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The last decade has witnessed a surprisingly persistent debate in the field of Jewish Studies - as well as American-Jewish culture in general - over the meaning of and justification [...]

The debate about the uniqueness of the Holocaust has been with us for at least a quarter of a century. Historically, the emergence of this discourse took place at the [...]

In Israel, historical controversies and their interpretations often form the stuff of contemporary popular debate. What would typically be confined to esoteric journals in the United States frequently spills into [...]

THE REELECTION OF Binyamin Netanyahu, accompanied by his renunciation of the two-state solution and racist denigration of Israel's Arab voters, has created the moment of greatest despair over Israel/ Palestine [...]

One of the singular virtues of TIKKUN magazine over the last fifteen years is the way it has combined an engagement with American politics, culture, and spirituality with an equal [...]

Agriculture and Jewish Culture in Interwar Poland We live in a time of dead ideologies which, like the cast-off statues of Lenin and Stalin, languish torn down in some half-forgotten [...]

* The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul, by Yoram Hazony. Basic Books, 2000. A specter is haunting the Jewish world. It is the specter of postzionism. To exorcise [...]

* Kadosh, directed by Amos Gitai. Kino International, 2000. It is no secret that Israel has been gripped for decades by a struggle between secular and religious Jews over the [...]

* Rivonia's Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa, by Glenn Frankel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. With the fall of Communism a decade ago, [...]

The way Jews live in the world has undergone a major shift in this past century, a shift that is worth thinking about in the context of a larger time [...]

One thing that Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Jews have accomplished collectively is to turn the Passover Seder into rote ritual. Whether it be an Orthodox recitation of every line in [...]

One thing that Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Jews have accomplished collectively is to turn the Passover Seder into rote ritual. Whether it be an Orthodox recitation of every line in [...]

According to a certain Jewish joke, a prominent English Jew, about to be knighted by the Queen, is informed by the protocol officials that he is to recite a few [...]

The United Jewish Appeal (UJA) is running scared. A full-page advertisement in the west coast edition of the New York Times shows a picture of an endearing young child with [...]

Jonathan Pollard, sentenced ten years ago to life in prison for spying for Israel, continues to nag at the American Jewish conscience. For right-wing Jewish nationalists, Pollard presents no ambiguities. [...]

Since its emergence in the beginning of the nineteenth century, the field of Jewish Studies has often mirrored the struggles of the Jewish communities in which it was practiced. As [...]

'Jews don't kill Jews' was the shocked response of much of the Jewish world to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. This slogan certainly has its uses as a myth of [...]

Not every Jew is a historian and not every Jew who is a historian is a Jewish historian. But these seemingly uncontestable assertions turn out to have little validity when [...]

1. The collective punishment of the Palestinians--house demolitions, destruction of orchards, denial of food and medical care--is a violation of their human rights. The bombing of Israelis--deliberately blowing up civilians--is [...]