Benjamin Kerstein

Bostonian by birth, Israeli by choice, soon to be graduate of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, writer, blogger, aspiring novelist, student of Jewish and Israeli history and Assistant Editor of Azure.

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Dispatches From the Arena

My friend Michael Totten, who is a much braver man than I, has been posting…

The Ever Ambiguous Antonioni

The recent death of Michaelangelo Antonioni has occasioned a fascinating letter to Roger Ebert, alleging…

From Nakba to Waksa and Back Again

An interesting commentary in todays Yediot by Roni Shaked claims that the Palestinians have begun…

Feiglinism and Its Discontents

Moshe Feiglin, interviewed here at YNet, is a rightwing activist working hard to bring theocracy…

Loathing the Sopranos

As with all things pop cultural in Israel, the Sopranos has recently come to an…

The Most Annoying Israeli in the World

Israel's Channel 8, which regularly foists documentaries and educational programs of varying quality upon us,…

Tzipi, Israel and the Gray Lady

The New York Times Magazine’s recent profile of Tzipi Livni is too lengthy to be…

Dispatches From the Next War

Today’s Yediot Acharanot contains a lengthy article (thus far unposted and untranslated on the web)…