Derek Penslar

Derek Penslar discusses Chaim Nachman Bialik's Kishinev poems, and what they have meant to him in the past and today.

Vanessa Ochs discusses Shabbat tables,missing chairs, and new or remade rituals that emerged in the wake of October 7.

Arie Dubnov considers Moshe Dayan's 1956 eulogy in the memory of Ro'i Rotberg, who was killed by Palestinians on a kibbutz in the south of Israel to ask what that iconic speech tells us about neighbors, borders, and the Israeli nation-building project.

Drawing on a comparison to activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Michal Kravel-Tovi explores how civil societies in Israel and elsewhere confront the absence of state structures.

Elisheva Baumgarten discusses the ever changing concept of “Home” through two different medieval texts about the Jews who settled in Speyer, Germany.