Paris: An Atrocity Foretold
“We are all Parisians” is more than a slogan.
November 16, 2015
Messianist Crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire
A new book tells their story.
Shabbetai Tsvi was one of Jewish history’s most notorious false messiahs. After the Ottoman sultan ordered him forcibly converted to Islam in 1666, a number of his followers, who came to be known as the Dönmeh, converted along with him, but clung to their heterodox Jewish faith in secret. Most of them lived either in Salonica or in what is now western Turkey; some have maintained their identity until today. William Armstrong reviews a recent book about their history:
November 16, 2015
The EU Is Building a Legal Ghetto around Israel
Labeling laws are part of a broader pattern.
“Safe Spaces” for All on Campus—Except Jews?
Blatant anti-Semitism doesn’t count as a “micro-aggression.”
Messianist Crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire
A new book tells their story.
What a Duck-Head Shovel Tells Us about the History of the Galilee
Greeks or Jews?