How Israel and Bahrain Can Build on the Foundations of Peace
Adding trade to security cooperation.
September 1, 2023
Finding Traces of Jewish History in the Bronx
Stars of David and Hebrew names reveal churches as former synagogues.
Published three years after its author William Helmreich’s death, The Bronx Nobody Knows is the fifth and last book in a series on New York City’s history and geography. Helmreich, a sociologist who wrote extensively on Jewish subjects, took a keen interest in the borough’s Jewish past. In the late 1940s, it was home to 600,000 Jews; now, this population has dwindled to about 40,000. Beth Harpaz writes:
September 1, 2023
Why Is the White House Hiding the Truth about Its Iran Envoy?
Robert Malley was doing exactly what he was hired to do.
The Year Palestinian Nationalism Became Malign and Self-Destructive
1936, annus horribilis.
A Forgotten Medieval Author of Didactic Hebrew Poetry
Yedaya ha-Penini’s Book of the Orchard.
Finding Traces of Jewish History in the Bronx
Stars of David and Hebrew names reveal churches as former synagogues.