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Bernard Avishai

Bernard Avishai has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harvard Business Review, Harper’s and other publications. He is the author of, among other books, The Tragedy of Zionism and Promiscuous: “Portnoy’s Complaint” and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness.

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    A.B. Yehoshua’s Culture War

    ‘I have grown accustomed to the fact that the world here is wrecked in the morning and blooms again in the evening’

    byBernard Avishai
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    Orthodoxy and Liberalism

    Isaiah’s challenge to Halachic life, then and now

    byBernard Avishai
  • Ilona Karmel, circa. 1969.
    Ilona Karmel, circa. 1969.
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    Recollections of a Sick Soul

    On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a memoir of my dear friend, the novelist Ilona Karmel, who died 15 years ago

    byBernard Avishai
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