The Threat to Freedom of Speech about Israel: Campus Shout-Downs and the Spirit of the First Amendment
On February 8, 2010 Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, began speaking to a packed hall at UC Irvine.
The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity. The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam
Taner Akçam reminds us in his book The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity, that six years ago, a Turkish court sentenced two journalists to a year in jail for using the term, “genocide” to describe “events of 1915.”
The Clash of Civil Religions: A Paradigm for Understanding Israeli Politics
Almost thirty-five years after Camp David and twenty years after the Oslo Accord, a fundamental question remains unanswered: does the majority of the Israeli public support a left-wing or right-wing ideology?
Message from the Editor
Message from the Editor
The Unhappy Identity, by Alain Finkielkraut
Philosopher, essayist, and professor of “History and Modernity” at the prestigious “École Polytechnique,” Alain Finkielkraut is a frequent guest on talk shows and a regular contributor to the French media.
Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives, by Alvin Rosenfeld
Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives, by Alvin Rosenfeld, ed., Indiana University Press, 2013, 561 pp. Reviewed by Catherine D. Chatterley Today, more than sixty years after the destruction of European Jewry, antisemitism is a globalized phenomenon and one that appears to be evolving on a number of fronts. Jew-hatred has a millennial history and is one […]
God, Jews and the Media: Religion and Israel’s Media, by Yoel Cohen
Several years ago, Bar Ilan University held a symposium on religion and the media. As a newspaper reporter, I was curious as to what the panelists might have to say about the moral issues occasionally faced by journalists.
The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity, by Daniel Greene
The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity, by Daniel Greene, Indiana University Press, 2011. 185 pp. Reviewed by Sarah Schmidt Daniel Greene, Director of the Scholl Center for American History and Culture at the Newberry Library in Chicago, has written a well-researched monograph on the Intercollegiate Menorah Association, a group […]
From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel, by Robert Wistrich
Historian Robert Wistrich, who holds the Neuberger Chair for Modern European and Jewish History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is the head of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, publishes prolifically.
Unbroken Spirit: A Heroic Story of Faith, Courage and Survival, by Yosef Mendelevich
More than twenty years ago, the Soviet Union fell and its control over Eastern Europe ended.
Building the Positive Peace: The Urgent Need to Bring the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Back to Basics
It is generally accepted that the peace process, launched in 1993, went off the tracks and failed to meet the expectations of the interested parties: the state of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and the international community
The Zionist Message Hidden within Antique Pictures of the Holy Land
A 110-year-old trove of pictures taken by the Christian photographers of the American Colony in Jerusalem provides dramatic proof of thriving Jewish communities in
Palestine.
Intelligence Failure or Paralysis?
There was no shortage of intelligence, nor was there a lack of intelligence alerts about the Yom Kippur War. The reasons for the famous mechdal (Israel’s lack of preparedness for the war) should be judged in the context of the 1973 conditions and not according to “what if…” questions.
Could French Reporting on Israel Reflect a New Understanding?
The media in France show an inordinate interest in the Middle East and more specifically in the Palestinian issue and Israel.
