Jerusalem: The Eternal City of Jewish Longing
The resurrection of Jerusalem, after centuries of wandering and the near-death experience of the Holocaust, eludes simple rational explanation.
December 18, 2017
How Sephardi Refugees Brought Chocolate to France
They were plugged into an international network of Iberian exiles.
In the middle of the 16th century, Jewish converts to Christianity and their descendants—known as New Christians—began slipping from Spain and Portugal into southern France. Although this area was also officially Judenrein, here Jews had to make less effort to conceal their identities, and as time went on the communities they founded slowly became openly Jewish. One such group settled in Saint-Esprit, adjacent to the city of Bayonne and near the border with Spain. Mariana Montiel writes:
December 18, 2017
Why the U.S. Must Assume a More Direct Approach to Rolling Back Iranian Power
Lebanon’s stability is not a U.S. interest.
Sweden Has an Anti-Semitism Problem. But Politicians Would Rather Blame It on Israel Than Acknowledge Where It Comes From
Muslims and the far left, not the far right, are responsible for most of the attacks on Jews.
How Ancient Hebrew Poets Commemorated Hanukkah Even When Rabbis Ignored It
Liturgical tributes to the Hasmoneans in 7th-century Palestine.
How Sephardi Refugees Brought Chocolate to France
They were plugged into an international network of Iberian exiles.