A couple hundred meters from your house, Haim, there’s a bakery, a capitalist enterprise to the best of my knowledge. For a couple of years, I went there every Friday after morning services and bought the big flat pitot that my kids love for Shabbat dinner. The first time that the owner, or manager, or [...]
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SoJo Line-Up
Judaism and Religion: Can Israelis share a civic identity, not based on Judaism? Haim and Gershom propose answers. Meanwhile, ultra-Orthodoxy cancels conversion.
Culture and Ideas: Naomi Alderman’s “Disobedience” is Jewish literature as it should be.
“The Ran Quadruplets” proves that sex isn’t enough to make a film work
Politics and Policy: Yes, Obama’s Israel visit did actually reveal political intentions.
What’s the occupation like? Colonialism, more or less.
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Articles - Gershom
- Bookforum: Writing 1948
- Foreign Policy: 7 Myths About Israel
- Moment: Our Prayers, Our Problem
- Moment: Rabbinate v. Conversion
- National Post: Israel in 2028
- NY Times: How Do You Prove You’re a Jew?
- Prospect UK: Liberal Israel lobby
- TAP: Questions Before Bombing Iran
- TAP: The Strange Case of Robert Malley
Articles - Haim
- A Cab Driver’s Lament — The Jerusalem Report
- Animated Identities - The Jerusalem Report
- Fencing Israel - Orion Magazine
- Forward Op-ed: Shut Down Army Programs
- LA Times Op-ed: “Orders are Orders”
- LA Times Op-ed: “Orders are Orders”
- Nextbook.com: S. Yizhar
- Nextbook.com: The Great Brain
- NYT Op-ed: Israel’s Incredible Shrinking Sea
- Political Morality - The Jerusalem Report
- Traversing the Bounds of Sense - The Jerusalem Report
- We Need a Literature that Merges Past and Future — Jewish Chronicle
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- Bernard Avishai Dot Com
- bloggingheads.tv
- Brumspeak
- Ezra Klein
- Green Prophet
- Laissez Passer לסה פסה
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- Leonard Fine - Ongoing Conversation
- MarcGopin.com
- Mitchell Plitnick: The Third Way
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- Shalom Hartman Institute Blog
- TAPPED
- The G Spot - Kathy G.
- This Normal Life
- VC in Jerusalem
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On the Road
Gershom Gorenberg and Haim Watzman are available for lecturing in Israel and abroad. Gershom will be coming to the United States for speaking engagements early next year. Dates are available at the end of January and beginning of February. If your organization, congregation or campus would like more information, please contact him at gershomg@gmail.com. Haim is planning a trip either this winter or in the spring. Please contact him at hwatzman@gmail.com. -
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