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Rights Over Borders
On Permanent Minorities, One-State Reality, and the Mamdani Framework
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Rosh Hashanah in the Shadow of Gaza
On Sacred Time, State Violence, and the Jewish Crisis of Conscience
Sep 19 • 
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If Only He Would Go
On Scapegoats, Self-Deception, and Uncomfortable Truths
Sep 16 • 
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Wounds and Weapons: Israel as Unhealed Trauma
On Survival, Supremacy, and the Weaponization of Memory
Sep 11 • 
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Sabra Zionism and The Reservists Who See Dissent as Betrayal
On Family, Commandos, and The Poverty of Political Imagination
Sep 8 • 
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Perfecting the Theology of Erasure in Israel/Palestine
On Archaeology, Architecture, and Sacred Ruins
Sep 3 • 
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August 2025

Masada at Sunrise: Birthright and the Manufacturing of Memory
On American Zionism and the Production of Identity
Aug 27 • 
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Book Recommendations, August 25
On the Zohar, Notebooks, and Anxiety
Aug 25 • 
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Why the Jewish State Abandoned Jewish Languages
On Yiddish, Linguicide, and the Wisdom of Powerlessness
Aug 21 • 
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Israel's Joshua Complex and the Normalization of Conquest
On Psychological Preparedness, Perpetual Conflict, and Ancient Texts
Aug 19 • 
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The State That Refuses Its Own Nationality
On Identity Cards, Citizenship, and the Architecture of Exclusion
Aug 13 • 
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The Unanswerable Jewish Question
On Belonging, Nationalism, and Jewish Identity
Aug 11 • 
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