Iran Wins Another Victory in Iraq
Baghdad capitulates to the militias.
July 8, 2020
Preserving Records of Ottoman Jewish Cemeteries, Thanks to Bernard Lewis
With 100,000 photos of 61,022 tombstones.
On July 1, an Israeli organization for the study of the bygone Jewish communities of the Ottoman empire announced the launch of a database of Turkish Jewish cemeteries. Michael Curtis writes:
July 8, 2020
The Prospect of American Retreat from the Middle East Is Encouraging Israel to Extend Its Sovereignty into the West Bank
The Jewish state is vulnerable without firm control of the Jordan Valley.
How Palestinian Schools Erase Palestinian Christians
“Crusaders, infidels, and foreigners.”
How Hebrew Fiction Learned to Talk
The cadences of the Talmud left their mark on Yiddish, and Israeli, speech patterns.
Preserving Records of Ottoman Jewish Cemeteries, Thanks to Bernard Lewis
With 100,000 photos of 61,022 tombstones.