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"The Bible: From One-Reeler to Docu-Drama." April 23, 2013.
"Israel's
Gatekeepers." April 11, 2013.
"AIPAC
and the Secret Worlds of Peoplehood." March 12, 2013.
"World
War II and the Impossibility of Polish History." February
27, 2013.
"Signs
of the Times." February 7, 2013.
"Antisemitism:
Obsession or Logic?" January 24, 2013.
"When
Prayers for Rain are Answered." January 11, 2013.
"The
ISI and the Jews." January 3, 2013.
"America
and the Muslim Brotherhood: A Romance." December 30, 2012.
"Chemical
Warfare in the Middle East: A Brief History." December 13,
2012.
"Israel's Friends in Gaza." November 29, 2012.
"The
Real Jewish Geography." November 16, 2012.
"Can
Jews Write History?" November 8, 2012.
"Art
and Idolatry in Austria." October 30, 2012.
"Hans
Bethe and the Problem of 'Jewish Genius.'" October 15,
2012.
"Adorno,
Butler, and the Death of Irony." September 28, 2012.
"The Shofar." September 14, 2012.
"The
Aleppo Codex and the Ownership of Tradition." September
12, 2012.
"Neologism
and Nationalism." August 30, 2012.
"Jews and Guns." August 17, 2012.
"The
Postmodern Golem." August 7, 2012.
"Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake." July 20, 2012.
"UNESCO and the World Heritage Game." July 16, 2012.
"Hollywood
Goes to Auschwitz." June 29, 2012.
"The
Jewish Left, Between History and Revelation." June 11,
2012.
"Sending
Mein Kampf Back to School." May 22, 2012.
"The
Case of American Religious Zionism." May 10, 2012.
"Find, Fix, Finish." May 1, 2012.
"Independence
Day." April 26, 2012.
"Reading
between the Lists." April 4, 2012.
"Art
against History." March 29, 2012.
"Marching
to Jerusalem." March 22, 2012.
"AIPAC
and the Politics of Reaffirmation." March 13, 2012.
"What Would Ariel Sharon Do?" March 5, 2012.
"Evil Genius." February 23, 2012.
"The Signal-to-Noise War." February 15, 2012.
"Toward an Archaeology of Hell." February 7, 2012.
"Listening to Saddam." January 26, 2012.
"Jerusalem's Ego and Id." January 19, 2012.
"The Mughrabi Bridge to Nowhere." January 3, 2012.
"Roll, Jordan, Roll." December 23, 2011.
"Newt
and the Palestinians." December 13, 2011.
"Shtik
and Sensibility." December 9, 2011.
"Look for the Union Label." December 1, 2011.
"Into the Jewish Dark Continent." November 22, 2011.
"People
of the Byte." November 15, 2011.
"The Dead Sea Scrolls, Alive in Times Square." November 8, 2011.
"British Philo-Semitism, Once and Future." November 3, 2011.
"Creating the Master Race." October 28, 2011.
"Diversity at Dura-Europos." October 12, 2011.
"Israel Studies 101." October 3, 2011.
"Mossad and Morality on Film." September 7,
2011.
"Libya and the Jews." August 31, 2011.
"Demonizing Glenn Beck." August 26, 2011.
"Crown Heights in the Mirror." August 18,
2011.
"Israel and the Antipodes." August 15, 2011.
"The New Sinai." August 10, 2011.
"Hizballah in America." August 4, 2011.
"No Room in Zion?" July 28, 2011.
"The New Biblical Archeology." July 25,
2011.
"David
Mamet's Homecoming." July 18, 2011.
"Jews, Communism, and Espionage." June 29, 2011.
"The Tourist's Dilemma." June 20, 2011.
"Anti-Semitism
and Man at Yale." June 13, 2011.
"The
Anthropology of AIPAC." May 31, 2011.
"From
the Four Corners." May 24, 2011.
"Holocaust without End." May 18, 2011.
"Agitprop
in America." May 12, 2011.
"Anti-Semitism
101." May 6, 2011.
"On Faith and Forgeries." May 4, 2011.
"Eichmann Goes Digital." April 18, 2011.
“Clash of Civilizations.” April 8, 2011.
"The Archaeology War." March 31, 2011.
"Jewish Studies in Decline?" March 28, 2011.
"Beyond Tanks." March 14, 2011
"Follow the Money." March 2, 2011.
"Jewish Philanthropy 2.0." February 23, 2011.
"The Tribes Speak." February 16, 2011.
"The Pharaoh’s General, and Mubarak’s." February 7, 2011.
“The Iraqi Jewish Archive.” January 24, 2011.
“Science, Faith, and Biblical Archaeology.” January 17, 2011.
"Loving Jews, Hating Jews." January 10, 2011
"In the Portable Homeland." December 29, 2010.
"And Not a Drop to Drink." December 22, 2010
"The DNA Speaks." December 20, 2010
"Fire and Resilience." December 7, 2010.
"The Discreet Coyness of Salam Fayyad." December 3, 2010.
"Why Rachel’s Tomb Matters." November 19, 2010.
"Why
on Earth is Obama going to Israel?" March 12, 2013.
"Netanyahu
the Palestinian." January 2, 2013.
"The
True Obstacle to Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians."
March 26, 2013. With Asaf Romirowsky.
"Why
Hasn't There Been Another Palestinian Intifada?" September
9, 2012. With Asaf Romirowsky.
"An
SPME Report: A Review of Israel Apartheid Week." March 24,
2013.
"The Rhetoric of Nonsense." Middle East Quarterly 19 (2012):15-22.
"Egypt's Antiquities Caught in the Revolution" Middle East Quarterly 18 (2011): 73-78
"Are
We Willing To Die to Save the Past?" Spiked-Online, August
15, 2012.
"Middle
East Antiques Roadshow." May 29, 2012.
"Learning the Wrong Lesson from Ike." February 1, 2013.
"UNRWA Keeps Quiet on Syria.: November 9, 2012." With Asaf Romirowsky.
"Preserving the Syrian Paper Trail." October 17, 2012.
"The New Palestinian Realism." March 9, 2012. With Asaf Romirowsky.
"Palestinians: Refugees Forever?" June 5, 2012. With Asaf Romirowsky.
"Palestinian Refugees Forever?" May 25, 2012. With Asaf Romirowsky.
"BDS and the AFSC." April 24, 2012. With Asaf Romirowsky.
"BDS and the Jewish Studies Trap." February 8, 2013.
"Ken,
George, and the Jews." May 1, 2012.
"Arabs
Rewriting History." July 27, 2011. With Asaf Romirowsky.
"Growing
Threat in America." June 20, 2011.
"So
No to Right of Return." May 23, 2011.
"Israel's Diplomatic Dilemma." May 19, 2011.
"Intrusive
and Paternalistic." May 11.2011.
"Rating
America's 'Allies.'" May 4, 2011.
“A
Nation of Martyrs.” April 30, 2011.
Hudson New York
"Greek
Debt Default: Further Impact." June 13, 2011.
"Rebranding Egypt's Intelligence and Security Agencies". March 29, 2011.
“Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism, and the Parable of the Shark.” January 31, 2011.
"British-Israeli Relations Increasingly Fragile." January 3, 2011. With Nicholas Saidel.
"Israel on Campus. Where Are We?" December 16, 2010.
"Defund
the
UNRWA." Wall Street Journal
Europe, April 1, 2011. With Asaf Romirowsky.
“Egypt’s
Antiquities
Fall Victim to the Mob.” February 1, 2011.
"Guns
in America: A Question of Trust." February 4, 2013.
"What
the Murder of Iraqi Jews in 1941 Tells us about the Middle
East Today." June 25, 2011.
"UNRWA and the Code of Silence." November 7, 2010. With Asaf Romirowsky.
"As College Crisis Looms, Time To Rethink
Goals." November 2, 2010.
News from the Future
My Commencement Address
to the Class of 2015
Recent Academic Papers
"American Jews Beyond Judaism." Society 48 (2011): 323-329.
“The Changing
Place of Biblical Archaeology:Exceptionalism or Normal
Science?”
Middle Eastern Studies 46 (2010): 655-675. With Asaf Romirowsky.
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"Ethnicity in the Iron I Southern Levant: Marginal Notes." Akkadica 112: 27-33 (1999).
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