Greetings everyone - I’m going to be away next month (developments on the Iranian front permitting), so there will be no monthly recommendations at the end of August; I’ll make up for this with a bumper edition in September. And a reminder that paid subscribers can drop me a line to send them gift versions of any paywalled articles listed below.
Articles
For Beit Avi Chai, I wrote about the Pesikta de-Rav Kahana; halachah and morality; and the invention of prayer.
From Ha’aretz: An interview with Brad Lander; how Israel’s government is burying the two-state solution; the West Bank settlers drifting away from Israel’s far right; a report from the Gaza border 60 years ago; what happened when a Tel Aviv principal integrated affluent Israelis and asylum seeker children in one school; the mysterious, ancient Israeli site attracting modern pilgrims.
From the Times of Israel: The billions of shekels languishing in Palestinian bank vaults; the Jews-for-Jesus-run Jerusalem café at the center of the city’s Shabbat wars.
From the Tel Aviv Review of Books: Akin Ajayi on a visit to the Frankfurt International Book Fair.
From New Lines: The fracture of Israel’s Russians.
On Substack: Law Student in Denial on ‘The Last Ottoman Jew.’
Elsewhere: At Dispatch, the story of the Ahmadiyya Caliphate in Surrey, England.
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