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The Romance and Rage of Rashbi
In the technical halakhic sense, Lag BaOmer is not really a festival, and it is not attested to in any of the classical sources. So how did the Hilula de-Rashbi, as the Meron Lag BaOmer celebration is called, become such a large, and largely Hasidic, pilgrimage—and rave?
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What Was That Really About? Antisemitism or Something New?
In our Winter 2024 Issue, Editor Abraham Socher, Jonathan Karp, and Reviel Netz debated the cause behind the surge of anti-Israel protests spreading across the US and the world. Are…
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What’s Going On With Antisemitism?
Jonathan Karp responds to Reviel Netz
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More than the Old New Antisemitism
Reviel Netz responds to Jonathan Karp.
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You May View the Land from a Distance: Chaim Weizmann, May 1948
On the day the State of Israel declared independence, Chaim Weizmann lay ill and exhausted in a New York hotel room, waiting to hear if his rivals in Tel Aviv would recognize his achievements.
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Second-Hand Jew: A Self-Portrait in Scenes
I took my first novel to Israel with me, and when a suitcase bomb exploded twenty meters away from me at the Munich airport, I shielded the manuscript with my body. My sister didn’t read it until just before I left. Then she said: “I thought Thomas Mann was dead. Anyway, if you ask me, he’s not a good example.”
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This Great House
Israel's new National Library is the most architecturally exquisite building erected in the history of the Jewish State. Like its predecessor, it’s also an excellent place to “hock” about books and ideas.
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Light and Darkness
A great novelist and close reader of Calvin, , Marilynne Robinson has now written a luminous commentary on Genesis.. But is her God more predictable than the God of Abraham?
Letters, Spring 2024
JRB Don't You Wonder? Anti-Israelism or Antisemitism? Good News from Sa'ad, and More
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Imperial Rabbis
What, exactly, was Babylonian about the Babylonian Talmud and its sages?A new book by Simcha Gross suggests a radically new understanding.