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The Butterfly Effect
How A Single Event Transformed Global History
Triumph or Insecurity?
The Puzzling Depiction of Ecclesia and Synagoga
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An Unforgiving Land
The Perils of Settlement in 19th century Cyprus.
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What do Milton, the Talmud and the Coronation have in common?
Debating the Hebrew republic in the 17th Century
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The Rift that Healed
How Reform and Liberal Judaism in Britain diverged and merged.
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The Fragmentation of Judaism
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The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition
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The Cousinhood Goes to the Seaside
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Two-Gun Cohen
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The Baron’s Legacy
The little-known story of Baron Hirsch
Fiddling on the Roof
Why did the playwright change the ending?
Bodo’s Apostasy
Why did a 9th century deacon convert to Judaism?
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How To Argue over a Psalm
Melchizedek’s walk-on part in the bible, and the dispute he caused.
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England’s Overlooked Calumny
The Blood Libel should not be erased from the national memory
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The Twice Flattered Emperor
Two stories predicting Vespasian’s Coronation
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Anarchic Faith
The Contemporary Relevance of Early 20th Century Orthodox Jewish Anarchy
Sanctuary and Humiliation
The Wartime Haven in Shanghai
One Fake Too Many?
Were the Shapira manuscripts a forgery? 150 years on they still don’t know.
Harry Freedman's Jewish Notebook
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The MetropolitanThe Editors
Wrong Side of History
Wrong Side of HistoryEd West
Books
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of GeniusDiscussing the spiritual, biblical, Talmudic and Kabbalistic sources leonard Cohen used in his lyrics
Britain' Jews: Confidence, Maturity, AnxietyWhat is it like to be Jewish in Britain today?
Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis JacobsBiography of one of modern Jewry's most profound thinkers
Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the SoulA fascinating history of Kabbalah and the mystics who practise it.
The Murderous History of Bible TranslationsWho would have thought that translating the Bible was so dangerous
The Talmud: A BiographyThe story of a monumental classic of world literature and wisdom

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