Tehila is a long short story that formed part of my high school’s Hebrew Literature syllabus. The unnamed narrator is a visitor from overseas just arriving in the Jerusalem of the 1920’s for some ...
Antisemites have long depicted the Jews as a perverse, predatory, and pornographic people; horny vampires of the Orient. That ghoulish portrait — which, for short, can be called the ‘lust libel’ — is ...
‘The ultimate insider’s account’ wrote George Gruen on the release of Yehuda Avner’s book The Prime Ministers in 2010. In his usual limpid prose, Fathom’s literary critic Liam Hoare gives us a ...
The translation of Zeruya Shalev’s 2015 novel Pain should be the moment she assumes ‘her rightful place in the English-speaking world’s literary imagination alongside Amos Oz, David Grossman, and ...
Samuel Nurding: Why did you decide to write a study of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas? Grant Rumley: We decided to write the book after the 2014 peace talks, driven by the US Secretary ...
I took this innocent photo right before I turned off my phone for the Sabbath last night. The universe of war must have known that technically, we did not need to sit on our rooftop Sukka on the last ...
Donna Robinson Divine is Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Emirita Professor of Government at Smith College. The Idea of the Jewish State by Ben Halpern (her teacher at Brandeis) ...
Richard Landes argues that the claim made by the signatories of the Jerusalem Declaration that – in the face of the eliminationist antisemitism of the Global Jihad, no less – it is acceptable to call ...
President Joe Biden hoped to build on President Trump’s legacy by expanding the Abraham Accords to secure the ‘crown jewel’ of US foreign policy in the Middle East – normalisation between Israel and ...
In 2020, following Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, the UK Labour Party was found guilty by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission of three breaches of the Equality Act for its treatment of Jewish ...