How Palestinian Leaders’ Corruption and Israel’s Bureaucratic Inefficiency Have Helped Terror Flourish
Understanding the West Bank’s most solvable problems.
July 10, 2023
The Disappearing Language of Curaçao’s Jews
Sephardim were the first non-African group to adopt the local creole.
In the many lands of their dispersion, Jews have often developed their own distinctive dialects, the most famous of them being Yiddish and Ladino. Much less well known is the peculiar Jewish variation of Papiamento—a creole spoken in Curaçao that blends Portuguese, Dutch, and some Spanish and that seems to have originated with the island’s African slave population. The Jews of this Dutch-ruled territory constitute one of the oldest Jewish communities in the New World. Dor Shabashewitz writes:
July 10, 2023
Although It Has Much to Gain, Tunisia Is Unlikely to Normalize Its Relations with the Jewish State
The government that strangled the sole Arab democracy shuns peace with Israel.
Germany’s Anti-Semitism Commissars Are Too Often Anti-Semitic Commissars
Wolves in sheep’s jobs.
Understanding the Zohar, and the Debate about Its Origins
The key text of Jewish mysticism.
The Disappearing Language of Curaçao’s Jews
Sephardim were the first non-African group to adopt the local creole.