Nation Topics - Hebrew University | The Nation

By providing all-expenses paid trips to Israel for Jewish young adults, US funders and Israeli politicians are creating the next generations of American Zionists.

As Tom Segev’s biography makes clear, in the entire pantheon of Jewish superheroes there is no more unlikely figure than Simon Wiesenthal.

Ongoing conflict in the Middle East continually reinforces tribalism, religiosity and messianic Zionism.

A new book explores the longstanding scholarly debate over a secret and libertine Gospel of Mark.

Israeli writers and intellectuals look at their nation and its problems in a more nuanced and realistic way than most Americans.

The fall of Ehud Olmert is a tragedy for Israel and the world--squandering a genuine opportunity for a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab relations.

The race for "Jewish" bedrock has turned a Jerusalem slum's archaeological riches into an existential threat.

In a pair of groundbreaking books, Israeli historian Hillel Cohen explores the thorny issue of Palestinian collaboration with Zionists.

Tracing the course of Zionism and the splintered state it has created.

Israel's strategy in 1948 continues today: Make life so awful for
Palestinians that most will depart, leaving a few bankrupt ghettos as
memorials to the hopes for a Palestinian state.