The Fall of Sudan’s Ruler May Mark the End of One of the Arab World’s Most Enduring Islamist Regimes
The implications of Omar al-Bashir’s ouster.
April 17, 2019
A 5th-Century Gold Coin Found in Israel Commemorates the Emperor Who Took Away Jews’ Rights
Evidence of the man who ended the Sanhedrin, on the Sanhedrin Trail.
Created recently under the auspices of the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Sanhedrin Trail is designed for hikers, especially students, looking for Jewish archaeological sites in the Galilee from the first half of the first millennium CE. In February a group of such students discovered a solid-gold coin, which experts have now identified as dating to the reign of the emperor Theodosius II—who abolished the rabbinical high council for which the trail is named. Amanda Borschel-Dan writes:
April 17, 2019
Ilhan Omar and Her Willing Dupes
Compassion out of one side of her mouth, contempt out of the other.
The Quasi-Jewish Messianist Sect at the Center of Contemporary Turkish Anti-Semitism
Conspiracy theories about the Dönme.
A 5th-Century Gold Coin Found in Israel Commemorates the Emperor Who Took Away Jews’ Rights
Evidence of the man who ended the Sanhedrin, on the Sanhedrin Trail.
How the Books of Exodus and Esther Use Humor to Underscore a Message of Hope
Ironic inversions unite two narratives of redemption.