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ISRAEL BARTAL | I am a proud Israeli patriot. I was born in a Tel-Aviv suburb less than two years before David Ben-Gurion announced the establishment of the State of Israel in the city’s museum building.

ALEXANDER YAKOBSON |There is something strange about the debate on whether it is a good idea to enshrine Israel’s character as a Jewish state in a basic law: it regularly ignores the fact that this definition already appears in three existing basic laws.

DAVID N. MYERS | At the end of March 1919, Jewish leaders from Europe and the United States assembled in Paris in advance of the peace talks that would bring a formal end to the First World War.

GIDEON SAPIR | The media recently exposed the Israeli public to a barrage of spin regarding the proposed Basic Law: Israel is the Nation State of the Jewish People.

SIMON RABINOVITCH |Defining Israel provides complete translations of all of the proposed basic laws attempting to legally clarify what it means for Israel to be a Jewish and democratic state.

RUTH GAVISON AND SIMON RABINOVITCH | To understand that Israel is a Jewish state is not the same as to understand what it means for a state to be Jewish.

MARGINALIA REVIEW OF BOOKS | A forum edited by Simon Rabinovitch.

ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED | When did the Greek term ioudaios come to mean “Jew”?

MALCOLM LOWE | The contemporary debate over the use of “Judean” or “Jew” when translating ancient texts has its ultimate source in my two long articles in Novum Testamentum.

MARGINALIA REVIEW OF BOOKS | Have scholars erased the Jews from Antiquity?

JONATHAN KLAWANS | Many learned colleagues have written detailed analyses of these matters and I’ve been asked to explain my view.

DANIEL R. SCHWARTZ | The question whether we should use “Jew” or “Judean” when writing about antiquity should...