Q&A With Leon Wieseltier
On Jewish literature, Israel, digitization, freedom of expression and the pleasures of being insulted.
On Jewish literature, Israel, digitization, freedom of expression and the pleasures of being insulted.
Struggles over land & identity are at the heart of growing tensions between the Israeli government & its once-nomadic citizens.
For years, falafel was Israel’s iconic food, its global culinary ambassador. But in recent years, another Israeli dish with working-class roots has become a major player in the game of street-food diplomacy: the savory tomato and egg mixture called shakshuka.
The Jewish argument against turning a blind eye to fraud
Trees matter, and Israelis, of all people, should understand why.
When I was in Israel in late 2013, I drove across the rugged expanse of the Negev on Route 31. At the time, Israeli newspapers were full of articles describing highly controversial demolitions of Bedouin homes and villages, failed plans to resettle the Bedouin, and ongoing tensions between the Bedouin and the Israeli government.
With the draft law rolled back, Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox aren’t likely to serve in the military.
“I don’t take kindly to being called anti-Semitic and I don’t take kindly to having Jewish self-hatred attributed to me. I don’t take kindly to it at all.”
Professor Daniel Schwartz on how fears of Jewish disloyalty fueled deportations and massacres in Eastern Europe during and after the war, how the Jewish Legion helped conquer Ottoman Palestine for the British, and why World War I was a turning point for European Jewry.
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