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YEHUDAH MIRSKY | An odd and simple-minded question, perhaps, given the ubiquity and centrality of nation states in our world, but still worth asking, especially when first principles are on the table.

NIR KEDAR | The controversy over the proposed Basic Law: Israel is the Nation-State of the Jewish People revolves mainly around its content.

NAHUM KARLINSKY | Spring in Israel is beautiful but brief.

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.

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”?