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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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Are We Seeing the End of the ‘Good Arabs’ in Israel?

For anyone who follows the conflict in Israel/Palestine, the latest conflagration seems all too familiar. Tensions rise in the West Bank, in this case around the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East…
Shaul Magid
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As Transition Looms, Jewish Studies is Mired in Controversy

What is the state of Jewish Studies in America? This question has been raised anew in light of the series of events in the past few months surrounding the case of Hebrew Union College sociologist and…
Shaul Magid
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Religion Dispatches

How Did Hasidic Jewry Become a Stronghold of Trumpism?

Is American Hasidism in crisis? After successfully rebuilding its institutions after the war, Hasidism in America has flourished. And yet, its response to COVID and its newfound reactionary political…
Shaul Magid
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