Brandon Marlon

Brandon Marlon is a Canadian-Israeli author whose writing has appeared variously in Canada, USA, England, Ireland, France, Greece, Romania, Israel, India, Pakistan, and Singapore. His script The Bleeding Season won the 2007 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition, and he is the author of 'Inspirations of Israel: Poetry for a Land and People.'

A colorized image of David Ben-Gurion reading Israel’s Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948.

'The Israeli Century': Yossi Shain's view of Israel-Diaspora dynamics - review

Despite its elisions and hyperbole, The Israeli Century is an extensive and substantive assessment of Jewry’s contemporary homeland-Diaspora dynamic.

MAY 5, 2022

A MAN WALKS past graves desecrated with swastikas at the Jewish cemetery in Westhoffen, near Strasbourg, France, in 2019.

Why do people love dead Jews?

Novelist and academic Dara Horn's new book gets to the core question underlying every antisemitic act: For many gentiles “Jews were people who were supposed to be dead."

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The title page of the first printed edition of the Zohar from Mantua, Italy in 1558

Everything you need to know to navigate learning Kabbalah

Read about two books that explore the development of the study of Kabbalah - how did it become so popular?

JULY 29, 2021

Noa Tishby’s guide to Israel - book review

Israeli expat Noa Tishby seeks to set straight her fellow secular liberals in Hollywood and on college campuses when it comes to her natal land.

JUNE 10, 2021

Noa Tishby holds a copy of her new book at a launch event in Los Angeles in April

Israel's diplomatic history explored in Emmanuel Navon's new book

In its attempt to adumbrate Israel’s relations with the nations across time and space, the work evidences admirable ambition and posits a winning idea.

JANUARY 26, 2021

'The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel,' by Emmanuel Navon.

Defending Zionism: Arming allies and countering critics

Zionism: The Concise History aims to arm allies and controvert adversaries in the impassioned struggle over the meaning and legacy of the Zionist movement.

MAY 27, 2020