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Joshua Shanes is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston. He has published widely on modern Jewish politics, culture and religion, particularly on the origins and development of Zionism. His current book project is a history of the term "Orthodoxy" from its origins through today.
How a founder of progressive orthodoxy, on the eve of Georgia’s election to determine the fate of the Senate, attacked the progressive Black leader and Jewish ally for his insufficiently rightwing views on Israel.
A powerful comparison to Nazi Germany can help us understand why confederate statutes must come down.
Joshua Shanes argues that Rabbi Avi Weiss’s book on Open Orthodoxy both provides a loving entry into Judaism and a complex, problematic relationship between Judaism and Zionism.
Joshua Shanes warns of the danger of “mainstream” Zionism: as it “grows ever more rightwing, its nationalist and racist interpretations of the Torah increasingly drown out the more humanist ones.”