Anita Shapira

Apr 26, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Julie Sugar |Akiva Schick |Aron Rodrigue |Anita Shapira

Stanford University Press 256 pp., $26 When Zsuzsika Rubin was four years old, her mother, Lilly, took her to a photographer’s portrait studio, where she wore different outfits and hairstyles and struck poses with props: as an all-grown-up lady doing her “daily shopping” with a plush dog and a straw basket, as a housewife in an apron hovering over a little toy stove.

Nov 27, 2023 | unherd.com | Anita Shapira

It was hot and stifling in the corridors of Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital. Hundreds of people queued for hours, but no one complained. It was the afternoon of October 7 and they were waiting to give blood. Volunteers were also among the first to respond to Hamas’s brutal attack on the ground. The army was protecting Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and civilians were left to fend for themselves for several hours against frenzied killers.

Jul 21, 2023 | haaretz.com | Anita Shapira

The Zionist movement avoided messianism like the plague, but after 75 years it is now threatening to destroy the Jewish state. It's happened twice before. Will it happen again? The State of Israel has just celebrated the 75th anniversary of its existence.