By Celebrating “World Jerusalem Day,” Hamas Pledges Fealty to Iran
And distances itself from the Sunni states.
June 21, 2019
Historic Communal Registers Provide a Window onto Centuries of Jewish Civil Society
The pinkes.
By the 17th century, the Hebrew word pinkas, meaning notebook—a rabbinic-era borrowing from the Greek pinax, or writing tablet—had come to refer to the registry books kept by local Jewish communal institutions. These would be alternately reviled as signs of backwardness and praised as repositories of folk history. In fact, writes the historian Adam Teller, they were neither:
June 21, 2019
The Palestinian Authority’s Refusal to Attend the Bahrain Conference Is Irresponsible and Self-Defeating
And a possible violation of the Oslo Accords.
Why Herman Wouk Will Achieve an Immortality Unlike Any Other Jewish Cultural Figure of His Time
He wrote about the greatest story of all.
Albert Memmi: The Great Theorist of Decolonization Who Saw the Dangers of Anti-Zionism
To Memmi national identity was a necessity and Zionism a liberation movement.
Historic Communal Registers Provide a Window onto Centuries of Jewish Civil Society
The pinkes.