What the Assassination of a Hamas Commander Portends
Will there be renewed fighting?
March 28, 2017
Maintaining Cochin’s Four-Century-Old Synagogue
One of the city’s last Jews has made it his mission.
Once home to one of India’s largest Jewish communities, the city of Cochin is now thought to have no more than 27 Jews; most of the rest have left for Israel over the past four decades. Joseph Elias Josephai has made it his mission to maintain the city’s synagogue—built 450 years ago—where he still comes to pray. (Video, 4 minutes.)
March 28, 2017
Abraham Isaac Kook’s Enduring Insights into the Paradoxes of Modernity
Some century-old thoughts from the great theologian of religious Zionism.
The Desecration of Jewish Cemeteries: Serious, But Not New
Grave matter.
Nasser’s Anti-Semitic War against Israel
How Nazi and Islamist influence shaped the Egyptian leader.
Maintaining Cochin’s Four-Century-Old Synagogue
One of the city’s last Jews has made it his mission.