To fix the Israel-Diaspora relationship, make our communal organisations genuinely representative
By Jay Ruderman
Jay Ruderman is the President of the Ruderman Family Foundation, which focuses on the inclusion of people with...
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October 2019
British Jews and Israel – how is the relationship evolving? A Symposium | Simon Gordon
By Simon Gordon
In July 2018, an opinion piece in the Jewish Chronicle identified ‘fundamental questions which must now be urgently...
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November 2018
Response to Michael Walzer’s ‘On Chaim Gans on the Jewish Diaspora’
By Chaim Gans
Writing in Fathom Michael Walzer responded to the discussion of diaspora Jews in Chaim Gans’s book A Political...
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Spring 2017
On Chaim Gans on the Jewish Diaspora
By Michael Walzer
Fathom has invited a series of writers to respond to Chaim Gans’s A Political Theory for the Jewish...
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Spring 2017
We must not be afraid to talk about the roots of the conflict
By Shaul Judelman
Shaul Judelman is a Jewish Israeli living in the Gush Etzion settlement and he is the coordinator of...
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Summer 2016
Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | Shany Mor
By Shany Mor
Perry Anderson’s Theological Anti-Zionism Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s long essay, ‘The House of Zion’, was...
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Spring 2016
Book Review | Diasporic Activism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By Keith Kahn-Harris
One of the most striking features of intra-Jewish conflicts over Israel in the UK and elsewhere in the...
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Spring 2016
JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: Yair Lapid in conversation with Bronwen Maddox
By Yair Lapid
Leader of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaking to Prospect editor Bronwen Maddox the BICOM-Jewish News ‘UK/Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference’.
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Summer 2015
In Defence of Zionism
By Gadi Taub
Gadi Taub is a prominent Israeli historian, author, screenwriter, political commentator and Senior Lecturer in the School Public Policy and the Department of Communications...
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Autumn 2014
Book Review | Some of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism
By Dave Rich
First, the disclosure: Ben Cohen is a friend and comrade who was kind enough to invite me to...
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Autumn 2014
Saving the Promised Land: Alan Johnson interviews Ari Shavit
By Ari Shavit
Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land: The Triumph and the Tragedy of Israel is one of the most talked...
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Spring 2014
Jerusalem Solitudes in Early Hebrew Literature
By Noga Emanuel
As the spiritual bedrock of Judaism, Jerusalem had been a magnet for millennial longing. For centuries Jews intensely...
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Spring 2014
Book Review: My Promised Land: The Triumph and the Tragedy of Israel
By Hannah Weisfeld
As a British Jew reading Ari Shavit’s account of modern day Israel, his starting point feels particularly poignant....
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Spring 2014
Time for a Revolution in Israel’s Global Engagement
By Gidi Grinstein and Daphna Kaufman
Israel needs a revolution in how it thinks about foreign relations. To meet huge external challenges it needs...
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Spring 2014
Book Review: The Tragedy of a Generation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe
By Henry Srebrnik
The Tragedy of a Generation, states the book’s dust jacket, is ‘the story of the rise and fall...
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Autumn 2013
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