Behold the New Middle East—Same as the Old Middle East
American policy should seek improvements, not solutions.
February 22, 2017
Saving the Remnants of Jewish Life in the Arab World
The Diarna project.
In 2008, Jason Guberman began a project to map and collect photographs of synagogues and Jewish shrines and cemeteries throughout the Middle East, creating for posterity a digital museum of the physical remnants of these ancient, and almost entirely defunct, communities. Diarna, the organization he founded, has been able to take advantage of the recent upheavals in the region to expand its reach even as Islamic State and other groups have been destroying what little remains. Emily Feldman writes:
February 22, 2017
Hamas Declines to Make Gaza “the Singapore of the Middle East”
Israel made an offer only Hamas would refuse.
Saving the Remnants of Jewish Life in the Arab World
The Diarna project.
It’s Ordinary Americans, Not Professional Provocateurs, Whose Freedom of Expression Needs Defense
Don’t make Milo Yiannopoulos a poster boy.
Joseph Katz: From Soviet Master Spy to Technical Adviser for James Bond Films
From Lithuania to Brooklyn to Tel Aviv.