The pioneering gay writer and editor Michael Denneny, who died on April 12, learned from his teacher Arendt that an individual can be free only as part of a free community

The massive protests preceding Israel’s 75th birthday have resurrected a century-old question that now demands an answer: A Jewish state or state for Jews?

The definitive guide to the past, present, and future of modern Judaism’s most fantastical and magnetic idea—and the West’s most explosive political label

The Palestinian leader’s scholarly abstract sheds light on the crude deformations of Soviet Zionology and how they are reflected in today’s universities

The Kahanist who embodies the fears and drives roiling beneath the shiny surface of the Start-up Nation is now only an election away from real political power. Will it change him?

A new book by the multimedia artist Andi Arnovitz is an astonishingly original work of Duchampian Zionism

Two recent books on the Israeli national project reflect the differing cultural sensibilities of their U.S. publishers

Using lies and social pressure to force students to disavow Israel is a strategy aimed at raising the psychic and professional cost of being Jewish

Matan Kahana’s lonely battle to build a religious-Zionist-labor-Orthodox-democratic Jewish state

Despite what anti-Zionist ideologues might assume, the Jews of Israel are an inspiration for many Māori

Israel is the model for the nation-state idea on which the current global order was founded. That’s why opponents of the idea see it as a target.

In the early days of Jewish studies, academics yearned for objective universalism over self-referential particularism. The hyperpolarized anti-Israel discourse in today’s departments is a far cry from that vision.

The process of replacing old norms with new ones is at the root of Jewish communal tradition and practice

Accusing anti-Zionists of being bad Jews is not new, interesting, or correct

These days, the worst social media crime is daring to be a pro-Israel woman