Recent articles of Jewish and Israel related interest...

How US, Israeli Jews Could Draw Closer
by Yoav Shoham
The Jewish Week, 16 July 2008

The Origins of Israeli Post-Rock
by Joel Schalit
Week 11 July 2008

Inventing an Invention
by Israel Bartal
Haaretz 6 July 2008

Cultural Crossroads of the Levant
by Rachel Donadio
New York Times, 29 June 2008

What Does It Mean To Be "Pro-Israel"?
By Shmuel Rosner
Slate Magazine 7 May 2008

Middle Israel: The Messiah's Bonfire
The Jerusalem Post, 22 May 2008

Facing Tomorrow – The Presidents Conference 2008- Background and Policy Documents
Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, May 2008

Israel at Sixty: An Interview with Mitchell Cohen
By Daniel Buarque
Dissent, Spring 2008

Unforgiven
By Jeffrey Goldberg
The Atlantic, May 2008

Funny, You Don’t Look Like a Subject for Warhol
By Ken Johnson
New York Times, 28 March 2008–04–27

One direction home - A Pigeon and a Boy ("Yonah Vena'ar"), by Meir Shalev
By Ruth Margalit
Haaretz 17 February 2008

"When the Shark and the Fish First Met"
Gilad Shalit
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (February 2008)

Hebrew National - A new documentary tells the story of Jews in America
Joseph Epstein
Humanities, January/February 2008, Volume 29, Number 1

Sabra Sounds: Meir Banai Returns
Viva Sarah Press
The Jerusalem Post, Jan 23, 2008

Israeli Secularism in the Guttman Center Polls 1990 – 2008
Dr. Raphael Ventura and Michael Phillipov
The Israel Democracy Institute (Winter 2008)

Roundtable on Teaching Israel
Shma, Winter 2008

Sermon by Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie at the San Diego Biennial
15 December 2007

Jerusalem: The Scandal of Particularity
Norman Podhoretz
Commentary, July/August 2007

Forever Engaged, Never Married, to the Land of Israel
Asaf Inbari
Azure, Summer 5767 / 2007, No. 29  

Arctic Jews: An Interview with Michael Chabon
By Jon Wiener
Dissent, Spring 2007