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While the world’s attention was fixed on the holiday lull, a profound and irreversible shift in the balance of power occurred on the southern shores of the Mediterranean. It was a tale of two capitals moving in opposite directions through…

Q: Why do Jews write from right to left?
Hebrew is written from right to left because the right side is considered the spiritual side or “the right one,” while the left is not. There is a spiritual root in nature, the quality of giving,…

In this episode and the following one, meetings with remarkable Elijahs.

The Eternal Jew’s Tale
A Pesakh Montage, The Crystal Haggadah
Midrashbase

Khasidic Seder Midrashim, Kotsk, 1838 CE; part 1

… But once, with Yitzkhak Meir, his friend,…

The other week, after attending a Hanukkah event at a local Chabad synagogue, my family and I took an Uber back to our hotel. Our driver was an older woman who, upon learning where we had been, shared that she too was Jewish—but hadn’t…

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Something rubs me the wrong way when I hear yet another well-meaning government official or other representative talk about how they support yet another Holocaust museum or memorial. How they really regret what the…

How a 19th-century phantom planet explains a 21st-century antisemitic reflex. Inspired by The Arc of a Covenant by Walter Russell Mead

In the mid-1800s, astronomers faced a stubborn puzzle: Mercury’s orbit didn’t behave exactly as…

“For  Islam to recover, it must undergo a “war of interpretations” to neutralize literalist readings and move toward a “post-Islamic, post-religious” space similar to the historical trajectories of Christianity…

On October 10 of this year, President Trump accomplished what seemed to most leaders and pundits, an impossible mission: to bring Hamas and Israel to a ceasefire after a long two-year war which ran the risk of continuing indefinitely as is…

Strategically, Israel’s recognition of Somaliland is not symbolic; it is a move timed to a war map—and to an emerging realignment.

Historically, Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 as the Somali state collapsed into militia rule and…

Redemption in sight?

Extremist-Islamist Antisemitism in the Jewish Diaspora certainly riles up and, for the eye, legitimizes autochthonal, elitist, extreme-left-wing and extreme-right-wing Jew-hatred. While the Muslim majority uses its…