June Recommendations
What to read, listen to, watch, and play
Articles
For Beit Avi Chai, I wrote about the Jewish-Roman encounter in Bereshit Rabbah; how Jews and Christians read the Bible; Solomon Ibn Gabirol’s Keter Malchut; and rabbinic stories about the destruction of the Second Temple and the Bar Kochba Revolt.
From Ha’aretz: Adam Raz on the Palestinian refugees of 1967; The fight over renovating Jerusalem’s Mamila pool; Charles Petrie on dismantling UNRWA; the renovation of Tel Aviv’s Great Synagogue; David Rosenberg on why water may bring Iran to its knees.
From the Times of Israel: Gazan terror groups admit slain journalists were fighters.
From The Free Press: Roy K. Altman on A Jewish History Heist at the British Museum.
On Substack: David Oks on why China got rich and India didn’t and why kinship societies kill their old; Ben Koan on anti-Zionism as Jewish alternative history; Ammar Abdulhamid on the myth that the West ‘stole’ Muslim knowledge.
Elsewhere: At Dispatch, Maya Sall on why young British Sikhs are being drawn to the Khalistan movement.
