Keith Kahn-Harris
By Keith Kahn-Harris
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Opinion Failing To Capture the Vibrancy of British Jewish Life
A number of times over the last few years, I’ve had the same, mildly disconcerting, conversation. I’m a pretty involved in the UK Jewish community, spending a big chunk of my life on the merry-go-round of Jewish events. The community also forms of big part of my social life and after 42 years of involvement…
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Opinion Institution of Chief Rabbi Has Outlived Its Usefulness
Finally, after more than a year of deliberation, the United Kingdom has chosen Ephraim Mirvis to be its new chief rabbi, replacing Lord Jonathan Sacks. Actually, much of that sentence isn’t correct. It isn’t “the United Kingdom” that chooses the chief rabbi. For all its pretensions to established status, the chief rabbinate has only a…
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Books ‘Perfidious Albion’
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England By Anthony Julius Oxford University Press, 864 pages, $45 A monumental study of English antisemitism proves an astonishing and controversial achievement. If nothing else, “Trials of the Diaspora” is an extraordinary testament to the brilliance of its author. That Anthony Julius, a top London lawyer…
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Culture ‘A Tango Between God and Satan’
The odd Eurovision Song Contest win aside, the post-1948 Israeli popular music scene was an insular one for decades, appealing little to Diaspora Jews, let alone the wider world. Yet once the irresistible tide of globalized mass media struck Israel in the 1980s and ’90s, Israeli music became enriched by a host of local subcultures…
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Culture The Fascination of Israel
Israel vs. Utopia By Joel Schalit Akashic Books, 250 pages, $15.95. The Myths of Liberal Zionism By Yitzhak Laor Verso, 128 pages, $22.95. A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement By James Horrox AK Press, 167 pages, $17.95. A common theme in pro-Israel discourse is that critics of Israel are “obsessed” with the Jewish…
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