A Rare Opportunity to Destroy Hizballah
And an Iranian miscalculation.
March 10, 2026
From the Cairo Geniza.
Discovered inside the Ben Ezra synagogue in the old part of the city, the Cairo Geniza—a repository of discarded manuscripts—is one of the most remarkable sources for understanding Jewish history. Sebastiano Crestani and Friederike S. Schmidt describe February’s “fragment of the month,” written in Arabic using Hebrew characters:
And an Iranian miscalculation.
Two wars, intertwined.
A good plan in New York City.
From the Cairo Geniza.
A belief that might be coming back.
Discovered inside the Ben Ezra synagogue in the old part of the city, the Cairo Geniza—a repository of discarded manuscripts—is one of the most remarkable sources for understanding Jewish history. Sebastiano Crestani and Friederike S. Schmidt describe February’s “fragment of the month,” written in Arabic using Hebrew characters:
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