Monthly Archives: August 2025

(House) Israel (Utopia)

Posted on August 26, 2025 by zjb

I was in Israel this summer to give a talk about Zionism and the national home idea at a conference about People, Society and State after October 7. My talk focused on place and space and house and utopia at … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | 1 Comment

Zionism (Signs) Democracy

Posted on August 21, 2025 by zjb

Only in real life, because some things you can’t make up. Am pretty sure this is at R’chov David Marcus near corner of R’chov Pinsker in Jerusalem

Posted in uncategorized | Leave a comment

(Last Week) Erev Shabbat (Jerusalem)

Posted on August 15, 2025 by zjb

The place shuts down erev Shabbat on Rechov Azza. The sign reads, “They could have returned alive”

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Facts, Law, and Judaism (World Union of Jewish Studies)

Posted on August 5, 2025 by zjb

At a special panel at the World Union of Jewish Studies Congress taking place at the Hebrew University, colleagues, mostly Israeli, came to discuss facts, law, and Judaism. At the podium and from the floor, colleagues spoke to testimony, international … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

(נתיב ההפקרה) Tisha B’Av (2025)

Posted on August 4, 2025 by zjb

Tisha B’Av directs the religious imagination deep into its own pain. This fearsome day looks straight ahead, neither to the right nor to the left. In the book of Lamentations, read on the fast day, the suffering that the collective … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

(Tel Aviv) Erev Tisha B’Av (2025)

Posted on August 3, 2025 by zjb

Your seers prophesied to youDelusion and folly.They did not expose your iniquitySo as to restore your fortunes,But prophesied to you oraclesOf delusion and deception. Lamentations 2:14 The book of Lamentations, read on the hot summer fast day of Tisha B’Av, … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | 1 Comment