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A JOURNAL OF JEWISH IDEAS
Concerning Community
Table of Contents
Summer 2025
FROM THE EDITOR
Concerning Community
Claire E. Sufrin
THE STORIES WE TELL
It Is Time to Take the Palestinian Narrative More Seriously
Michael Koplow
Reframing the Zionist Narrative in Recognition of Palestinian Experience
Joshua Levisohn
Telling Israel’s Story in the Community of Nations
Conversation with Tal Becker by Abigail Pogrebin
Two Inward Turns: Canadian Jews Since Multiculturalism, Since October 8, and Since Trump’s Annexationist Threat
David S. Koffman
BOUNDARIES
Jewish Marriage and Intermarriage: A Pastoral Perspective
Aaron Brusso
When Community Becomes a Zero-Sum Game
Deborah Barer
A Sword at the Entrance: Pluralism, Polarization, and the Future of Jewish Community
Benjamin Berger
“In the Way that They Grow”: An Old-New Approach to Building a Community of Mitzvot and Obligation
Guy Austrian
Lifting the Ban? Spinoza and the Boundaries of Belonging
Daniel B. Schwartz
ACROSS AN OCEAN
An Invitation to Rise from Our Communal Mourning
Na’ama Levitz Applbaum
We Must Renew Our Commitment to Israel’s Defining Values
Tomer Persico
Hope Across the Atlantic
Masua Sagiv
In Search of and in Need of Knesset Yisrael
Leon A. Morris