Israeli Towns and Villages in the West Bank Are a Political Issue, Not a Legal One
In the despair of the eliminationists is the best hope for a negotiated peace.
November 25, 2019
Archaeologists, for the First Time, May Have Discovered a Medieval Bulgarian Synagogue
A building in a former Jewish neighborhood is definitely not a church.
Since ancient times, Jews have lived in what is now Bulgaria, and historical records suggest there was a thriving community of Byzantine Jews there in the Middle Ages. Ashkenazi Jews didn’t settle in the country until the 13th century; at the end the 15th, the Sephardim who eventually came to predominate began to arrive. Yet no archaeological remains of medieval Bulgarian Jewy have been found—that is, until Mirko Robov began excavating what he had assumed to be a church. Amanda Borschel-Dan writes:
November 25, 2019
Israel’s Message to Iran, Syria, and Russia
Understanding last week’s extensive airstrikes.
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The charges are flimsy, but Netanyahu can’t fight them and govern the country.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Hebrew (and Hebraic) Poetry
And his longtime collaborator, Hyman Hurwitz.
Archaeologists, for the First Time, May Have Discovered a Medieval Bulgarian Synagogue
A building in a former Jewish neighborhood is definitely not a church.