It is deeply troubling to speak about traumatic violence and the bloody, desecrated, and destroyed property of those whose lives…
Objects, trauma, violence, and loss: Telling stories, doing justice
Israel
“Settling in the hearts”: The new face of Jewish neonationalism in Israel’s mixed cities
In spring 2021, unprecedented intercommunal and police violence broke out in Jerusalem and other cities across Israel. Known as the…
Practices of relation: Baer and Imhoff
Marc David Baer and Sarah Imhoff discuss each other’s works and the ways they intersect.
Who needs conversion? Jewish conversion in a time of shattered boundaries
The idea that Jewish conversion might be unessential seems both provocative and counterintuitive. . . . Yet, in this short…
Out of time
I entered the Old City the same day that I watched Inferno, bookends of roughly a five-hour span. I could…
Thinking with Saba Mahmood
Mahmood outlines a set of concepts that are historically central to the workings of secularism and elucidates how they facilitate…
Emergent feminism among Orthodox Jewish women in Israel
Allison Kaplan Sommer and Dahlia Lithwick write at The New Republic write about the struggles of an emergent form of…
Crisis in Egypt roundup
The public protests and ouster of elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian military followed by the appointment of…
Romney and the two holy lands
Mitt Romney can't find enough good things to say about Israel. And like his now defunct challengers, Gingrich and Santorum,…
Israel, secularism, and democracy
At Harvard Law School, faculty members Noah Feldman and Duncan Kennedy recently debated the question "Can Israel Be Both Jewish…