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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.

SAMUEL LONCAR | It’s an old story. As the world becomes modern, the forces of modernization destroy...

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...

ADELE REINHARTZ | I am grateful for these thoughtful responses to my essay on the ioudaioi, and for the opportunity to reflect on them briefly here.

RUTH SHERIDAN | Reinhartz raises the important question of how we ought to translate the Greek word Ioudaios in the ancient sources...