The Myth of America’s Middle East Malfeasance
The region’s rulers have not been hapless pawns.
June 4, 2018
The Not-Quite-Lost Languages of Iraqi Jewry
And their literary history.
Like diaspora communities throughout most of history, the Jews of Iraq—the oldest Jewish community outside the land of Israel—long remained linguistically distinct from their neighbors. The Jews of Kurdistan spoke a form of Aramaic, while those in the remainder of the country spoke a uniquely Jewish form of Arabic, written in Hebrew characters, which some linguists believe preserves aspects of the Aramaic spoken by these Jews before the Arab conquest. Mardean Isaac writes:
June 4, 2018
Hamas’s Aims in Gaza
And the moral case for Jewish exercise of power.
The Campus Intersectionality Craze Makes Jews Uniquely Vulnerable
The weak versus the Jew.
The Refusenik Who Took Photographs of Life in the Gulag
And was a record-breaking sniper.
The Not-Quite-Lost Languages of Iraqi Jewry
And their literary history.