Israel’s Most Right-Wing Government Ever? Hardly.
Getting Israeli politics all wrong.
June 23, 2016
Azerbaijan’s All-Jewish City
Welcome to Krasnaya Sloboda.
In northern Azerbaijan, not far from the Russian border, lies the town of Krasnaya Sloboda, whose residents are almost exclusively “Mountain Jews”—indigenous Caucasian Jews who speak their own language, related to Persian. Thanks to the presence of a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary from Israel, the community has experienced a religious revival, but its numbers are dwindling as younger people move to Russia in search of economic opportunity. Lee Gancman writes:
June 23, 2016
The Islamist War on Free Speech
A dangerous alliance with political correctness.
Should Jews Back Brexit?
And does the UK restrain the EU’s anti-Israel instincts?
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Theology, as Disclosed in His Author’s Notes
Rebellion, creativity, and The Penitent.
Azerbaijan’s All-Jewish City
Welcome to Krasnaya Sloboda.