The Zionist counter-history of Safed

Can Jewish religiosity blend with Zionism without ending up in messianism? Through this personal reading of Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin's latest essay, Mishnaic Consciousness, Biblical Consciousness: Safed...

By Noémie Issan-Benchimol

Undermining Netanyahu

While the immediate focus is on the ground incursion into Lebanon, military operations and targeted assassinations, and the regional and even global balance, Noémie Issan-Benchimol,...

By Noémie Issan-Benchimol

On redeeming of hostages in Jewish thought: tradition and current events in Gaza

How should we view the divide between those in Israel who put the destruction of Hamas before any consideration of the hostages' fate, and those...

By Noémie Issan-Benchimol

‘Autonomies’, or How Israel Exorcises the Demons of the Future

The series Unorthodox and Shtisel have been worldwide successes, familiarizing audiences with Haredi life. Noémie Issan-Benchimol discusses another Israeli series for K., Autonomies, which imagines...

By Noémie Issan-Benchimol