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Two peoples, two states, one land?
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June 2009 |
Hillel Halkin |
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A vivid film fails to grapple with the torturous complexities of the 1982 Lebanon war.
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March 2009 |
Hillel Halkin |
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Can an alienated and growing minority be accommodated without dismantling the rule of the majority?
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January 2009 |
Hillel Halkin |
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December 2008 |
Reviewed by Hillel Halkin |
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Out of a night in the Israeli army comes an imaginative, if angry, interpretation of the most argued-over episode in the book of Genesis.
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November 2008 |
Hillel Halkin |
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How genetically distinct are the Jewish people, and does it matter?
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September 2008 |
Hillel Halkin |
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Translator Hillel Halkin's afterword to Agnon's To This Day.
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May 2008 |
Hillel Halkin |
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Jewish tradition offers three different conceptions of tikkun olam; today's buzz phrase is compatible with none of them.
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July/August 2008 |
Hillel Halkin |
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Even as its literature has become accessible to all, Hebrew has lost its position at the center of one people's life.
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June 2008 |
Hillel Halkin |
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February 2008 |
Reviewed by Hillel Halkin |
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There are good grounds for hoping that the dangerous experiment revived at Annapolis will fail.
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January 2008 |
Hillel Halkin |
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Almost everything Israel's critics say about the West Bank settlers is wrong, starting with who they are.
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December 2007 |
Hillel Halkin |
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November 2007 |
Reviewed by Hillel Halkin |
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For a nine-year-old American Zionist and baseball fanatic, 1948 was an unforgettable year.
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October 2007 |
Hillel Halkin |
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Why has a scion of the Israeli establishment turned violently against his country,
and how significant is his apostasy?
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September 2007 |
Hillel Halkin |
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Seldom in Jewish history has such a profuse literary creativity been combined with such spiritual poise.
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July/August 2007 |
Hillel Halkin |
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The Jewish state, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Jewish future—a meditation.
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June 2007 |
Hillel Halkin |
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In writing about historical outbreaks of Jewish violence, real or imagined, scholars reveal more about themselves than about their subject.
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May 2007 |
Hillel Halkin |
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For the time being, the Jewish state cannot do much to shape its strategic environment—and this is the beginning of strategic wisdom.
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March 2007 |
Hillel Halkin |
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A vibrant metropolis by the sea, Tel Aviv has been subjected to more than its fair share of myth-making, pro and con.
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February 2007 |
Hillel Halkin |
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January 2007 |
Reviewed by Hillel Halkin |
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When we believe in a story, it is as though it has really happened.
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November 2006 |
Hillel Halkin |
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The aftermath of Lebanon presents a need, and an opportunity, to rethink Israel's situation in the world.
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October 2006 |
Hillel Halkin |
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For an adolescent in 1950's Manhattan, the choice lay between Judaism and America.
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September 2006 |
Hillel Halkin |
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Does an archeological dig in Jerusalem finally confirm the grandeur of the biblical king--and does it matter?
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July/August 2006 |
Hillel Halkin |
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June 2006 |
Reviewed by Hillel Halkin |
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The political scene is exceptionally murky, but a way forward remains clear.
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May 2006 |
Hillel Halkin |
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The Jewish joke has a serious and surprising pedigree, and bears an instructive relation to Jewish tradition.
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April 2006 |
Hillel Halkin |
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March 2006 |
Reviewed by Hillel Halkin |
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Reporters in the region do not acquire their biases accidentally.
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February 2006 |
Hillel Halkin |