How an Iranian Airline Brought the Coronavirus to the Middle East
Mahan Air carries both terrorism and pandemic.
May 13, 2020
A Snapshot of Jewish Salonica before Its Destruction
A city where Jews were once the majority.
On the eve of World War II, Jews accounted for some 40 percent of the population of Salonica; in earlier times, they had constituted an absolute majority of the city’s inhabitants. Most of Salonica’s Jews were Sephardi and Ladino-speaking, descended from exiles from Spain who came to the Ottoman empire in the 16th century. In her recent book, Sarah Abrevaya Stein reconstructs the lives of a Salonican Jewish family named Levy in the 19th and 20th centuries, based on their correspondence and other papers. Like most of the other Jews of that city, almost the entire family was murdered in the Holocaust. Stein here shares a vignette of one of her subjects:
May 13, 2020
A Recent Academic Study of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict Ignores History to Blame the Jewish State
“Holocaustia” and the “Israel lobby” are the problems.
Why Worry about the Libeling of Israel in the Media? Because It Sways the Opinion of Jews
The New York Times does a bang-up job of turning Jews against one another.
A Snapshot of Jewish Salonica before Its Destruction
A city where Jews were once the majority.
The Jewish Writer Who Made a Name for Himself in Both Yiddish and Hebrew
Zalman Shneour.