Why Israelis Believe Settlements Make Their Country More Secure
They ensure the continued presence of the IDF.
March 18, 2016
The German Jew Who Became an Ottoman Pasha
And fought the slave trade.
Born to a Jewish family in the Prussian city of Oppeln in 1840, Isaak Eduard Schnitzer was baptized into the Lutheran church by his mother at age five. As an adult, he attended medical school, learned Turkish and Albanian, and lived in Germany, the Balkans, and Istanbul before setting off for Sudan, then a nominal part of the Ottoman empire under Anglo-Egyptian control. Gil Troy writes:
March 18, 2016
The Iran Deal Has Launched a Middle East Arms Race
Saudi Arabia just held a massive military exercise.
AIPAC Must Stay Non-Partisan
Let Donald Trump speak.
On Translating the Zohar
The classic work of Jewish mysticism is filled with wordplay.
The German Jew Who Became an Ottoman Pasha
And fought the slave trade.