A Kibbutz and Its Fullness
"How could I remember my place and my people without contaminating the memories with the catastrophe that had just befallen us?"
An Old-New Bigotry? A Response
Both Jonathan Karp’s and Reviel Netz’s essays are written in the shadow of October 8—not the day of the unthinkably brutal Hamas massacre in southern Israel, but the day after.
Anti-Israelism
It's a new prejudice, not just the old story in a new guise.
Black Hats, Green Fatigues
They don't like the Z-word, but new haredi IDF soldiers sound a lot like the old Zionists.
Facing Faces
Nearly every morning since October 7, I open my phone and look at the faces of the war’s most recent victims. I gaze at these portraits fearfully, searching for a…
Israel’s Iron Lady
Golda told Nixon: “You are the president of 150 million Americans; I am the prime minister of six million prime ministers.”
Leapsniffing through the Vimveil: Avram Davidson’s Fantastic Fiction
Gods in fishbowls, men who are apes, and a Jewish dentist abducted by aliens: the fantastic fiction of Avram Davidson was almost as strange as his life.
Letters, Winter 2024
Reconstructing the Bible I’d like to take issue with Ethan Schwartz’s recent essay “You Say You Want a Revelation” reviewing Edward Feld’s The Book of Revolutions. Feld did not wing it or merely “read between the lines,” as Schwartz states. Feld cleanly lays out evidence that for those who wrote the Torah, “the decision to be inclusive, to incorporate vying…
Lovers (and Haters) of Zion
A new history of Zionism tells the tale through the towering emotions of its proponents and adversaries.
Of “Good Jews” and Bad Binaries
Anti-Israeli bigots do not hate Israel because they believe the worst about its actions. They feel an urge to believe the worst about Israeli actions because they hate Israel.