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My starting point is the striking idea suggested by Cynthia Baker that the word Jew is or was received as a kind of blow, forming the subject not from within...

The questions raised by Cynthia Baker’s terse, sophisticated intervention in Jew resonate in, with, and for Islam in numerous complex ways.

Calling someone a Jew is not a neutral act. In her new book, Cynthia Baker explains with exemplary clarity how for much of their history the term Jew and its adjacencies...

As Leopold Zunz once wrote, “Genuine scholarship is generative.”

When my nephew was about eight or so, he went to school one day and, upon returning home, announced, “I saw a Jew in school today.”

ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED | It is a potent time to rethink identity.

PETER GOTTSCHALK | In the penultimate chapter – “Applications and Implications: Coherent Contradiction, Exploration, Diffusion, Form

SAJJAD RIZVI | We use categories and concepts in order to communicate something to our peers, about our objects of inquiry and ideas

ANNA BIGELOW | If Shahab Ahmed were still with us to defend the complex and sometimes overblown prose in his heartbreaking work

MOHAMMED H. FADEL | Chapter 2 of “What is Islam?” is primarily a deconstructive project in which Ahmed criticizes two common approaches

TEHSEEN THAVER | The first chapter of Shahab Ahmed’s magnum opus What is Islam? titled “Six Questions about Islam” sets the stage

RUTH GAVISON | There is something perplexing, intriguing and deeply troubling in the debate over Israel’s character and whether it should be enshrined in a constitutional enactment.