My recent book, Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism, and Judaism, harnesses the powerful critique of the dominant secular(ist) epistemology, which is…
Sovereign Jews: An introduction
Israel-Palestine
Questioning territory: A Jewish reflection on holy land*
Thinking of territory as a patrie, a motherland or homeland, makes use of metaphors that hope to capture a primal…
United Methodist Church, Israel, and divestment
Today at The New York Times, Laurie Goodstein reports on the United Methodist Church's decision not to divest from companies that supply Israel…
The home of the syndrome
Sam McPheeters travels through the Holy Land in search of the "Jerusalem syndrome" for Vice.
A tale of two flotillas
Given the close relationship, globally, between religious political action and religious charities, it should come as no surprise that there…
Beyond denial
For a brief moment in 2007, news of a hit Iranian television series, whose Farsi title was translated variously as…
Implicated and enraged: An interview with Judith Butler
Judith Butler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is among the leading social theorists alive today. Her most…
The future of Haaretz (and of Israel)
David Remnick, in The New Yorker, profiles Amos Schocken, the prickly but principled (albeit ideologically nonconformist) publisher of Haaretz, which,…
Delegation of American Muslim leaders visits Auschwitz and Dachau
In Forward, the Jewish weekly newspaper, A.J. Goodman reports on a recent trip of Muslim leaders to Auschwitz and Dachau.
Introducing the Israel-Palestine Project
Diane Winston introduces the Israel-Palestine Project, a multimedia exploration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, composed by students in her USC Annenberg…