Winter 2010

Volume 1, Number 2

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From the Editors


essays

Coming Back from The Edge
by Harris Eppsteiner
How birthright and Achad Ha’am are leading the diaspora home… to itself.

The Jewish Ideology
by Jacob Abolafia
A Jewish ontological manifesto.

Trendy Post-denominational Judaism
by Shai Kamin
Why movements are still our best way forward.

Troubling Temptations
by Yasha Magarik
Struggling with the talmud’s educational ethic.

Intimacy and Hierarchy
by Yishai Schwartz
Models in Jewish and secular education.

Before the Hullabaloo
by Annie Atura
Jewish life at Yale, pre-quota.

Halakhic Egg Donation
by Rebecca Linfield
Jewish identity in a technological age.


translation

“Nationalism, Assimilation, and Social Democracy” by Vladimir Medem
Translated by Josh Price


reviews

The Geon and the Leviathan: Heresy and the Politics of Community by Marina Rustow
Reviewed by Yedidya Schwartz

Not My Way of Being: Judaism: a Way of Being by David Gelernter
Reviewed by Richard Kahn