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Shaul Magid

Shaul Magid teaches Modern Judaism at Harvard Divinity School, is a senior research fellow at The Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard, a Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College, and the rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue. His latest book is The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance.

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Religion Dispatches
Israel’s Ultra Orthodox, or Haredim, do not share the theological assumptions of the settlers—but in recent years a purely pragmatic alliance has formed. What does this mean for Israel as a society?
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Religion Dispatches
Though Mumbai militants were instructed to kill “Jews who were Israelis,” few of the victims had any ties to Israel and at least one was an Ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist. Comprehending the conflicting notions of Jewishness is essential to understanding whether this was an act of anti-Semitism or not.
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Religion Dispatches
Listening to Palin and Biden, one is reminded that American support for Israel borders on obsessive. The biblical story of the golden calf reminds us that obsession does not usually produce good gods—or good policy.
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