Only Israeli Boots on the Ground Can Keep Rocket Launchers Out of the West Bank
Learning the lessons of Gaza.
September 8, 2023
The Beginnings of Sephardi Jewry
A collective sense of its own antiquity fed into the trauma of 1492.
For many centuries, the term “Sephardi” has been applied to Jews whose ancestors fled Spain or Portugal in the 15th and 16th centuries, or to Jews from North Africa and the Middle East more generally. Tamar Marvin explains the origins of both the term and the community it denotes. The story begins with the biblical book of Obadiah, which refers to exiles from Jerusalem who settled in Sepharad—probably Sardis in what is now western Turkey. But Targum Jonathan, an Aramaic translation from the 1st- or 2nd-century long considered authoritative by Jews, renders the word as Espamia, i.e., Spain:
September 8, 2023
The Biden Administration Caved to Hizballah in a Dispute with Israel—and No One Noticed
Un-recognizing Israeli sovereignty in the Golan.
A New Film Stirs Up Memories of a Forgotten Massacre
Kiryat Shmona, 1974.
The Beginnings of Sephardi Jewry
A collective sense of its own antiquity fed into the trauma of 1492.
The Changing Face of Unbelief in the U.S. and Britain
God may not be dead, but New Atheism is.