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Elliott Horowitz

Elliott Horowitz, a resident of Jerusalem, is the author of Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence (Princeton) and co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review.

  • Rabbi David Stav, 2013.(Ariel Schalit/AP)
    Rabbi David Stav, 2013.(Ariel Schalit/AP)
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    Israel’s Next Chief Rabbi Has Illustrious Shoes To Fill—From Long Ago

    Can David Stav, who is in line for the post, return it to the stature it held before his immediate predecessors?

    byElliott Horowitz
  • Shoemaker, Polonnoe, 1912, from the An-sky Collection.(An-sky Collection, State Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg)
    Shoemaker, Polonnoe, 1912, from the An-sky Collection.(An-sky Collection, State Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg)
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    Religious Labor

    Israeli society debates the value of Haredi jobs, but Patrick Leigh Fermor saw the ultra-Orthodox hard at work

    byElliott Horowitz
  • “Jew’s Place of Wailing, Jerusalem” from William Bartlett’s Walks About the City and Environs of Jerusalem, 1844.(Wikimedia Commons)
    “Jew’s Place of Wailing, Jerusalem” from William Bartlett’s Walks About the City and Environs of Jerusalem, 1844.(Wikimedia Commons)
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    The Women’s Wall

    In calling for desegregation of the Kotel, the modern movement is actually reviving 19th-century traditions

    byElliott Horowitz
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