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03/08/2013 - 19:23

Betolin-Sherman’s writing is courageous and unabashed, from the moment she reveals the family’s economic situation to the point at which we... →

29/07/2013 - 12:20

Supporters of human rights should worry about this explosion of regulation. If people are to demand human rights, then they must first be... →

22/07/2013 - 16:58

“The War Within,” written before the 2013 Israeli elections, presciently makes the case for the reformist stance of Lapid’s Yesh Atid and... →

15/07/2013 - 11:47

First, the rabbinate. Israel has two chief rabbis, one Ashkenazi, the other Sephardi, elected for ten-year terms by a public council... →

12/07/2013 - 13:00

A graduate of the program is “qualified and equipped as a new kind of leader in the Orthodox community and beyond,” not exactly a rabbi,... →

07/07/2013 - 12:38

But I have bad news about pyjamas. Because I'm afraid your cotton pyjamas take 9,000 litres of water to produce. And it takes 100 litres of... →

02/07/2013 - 19:58

To counter Franklin's rather nutty point about Brailsford in 1914 it is sufficient only to observe that between the publication of The... →

27/06/2013 - 13:36

Of course it’s all relative: Ms. El Feki begins this book taking a long view. She contrasts the avidly sensual Egypt of past centuries with... →

24/06/2013 - 12:36

The European relationship between religion, law and politics is a strange creature. Religious influence over political life is weaker in... →

21/06/2013 - 14:18

The 2013 edition, with separate sections for Science and Social Sciences, features 10,853 journal listings in 232 disciplines; 83 countries... →

14/06/2013 - 20:09

The main justification for Halevy’s position was that he tried to support the humiliated, which in this case meant the Jews, and not... →

09/06/2013 - 12:37

Fortunately, treating readers to a sermon on Russia's dysfunctionality is only part of what Bullough has in mind. The homily is accompanied... →

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