Azure (journal)
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Azure, subtitled Ideas for the Jewish Nation, is the journal of the Shalem Center, an academic institute in Jerusalem. The magazine is published quarterly in English and in Hebrew; the Hebrew edition is Israel's leading journal of public thought.
Azure articles cover currents in Israel and the Jewish world, Jewish and Zionist history, Jewish thought, cultural trends in the Jewish world, political philosophy and other issues relevant to the Jewish people around the world. Frequent contributors include Michael Oren ("Six Days of War"), jurist Ruth Gavison, Yoram Hazony, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, Yossi Klein Halevi, and writer Claire Berlinski.
The name of the journal refers to the sky-blue dye applied to one of the white threads on the tallit, the ritual fringed garment worn by Jews. According to Jewish tradition, the blue color "is like the sea, and the sea is like the sky, and the sky resembles the Divine Throne" – serving to remind the Jews of all that is majestic and eternal, and of the obligation to represent these in the world.
