Why Israeli Arabs Should Drop Their Political Parties
A choice between embracing and rejecting modernity.
September 20, 2017
The Phoenicians May Have Given Europe and Ancient Israel Their Alphabets, but They Left behind No Literature
Could it because they lacked a national identity?
According to most experts, both the Hebrew and the Greek alphabets (from which the Latin alphabet was derived) were based on that used by the ancient Phoenicians, who lived in what is now Lebanon. While fragmentary inscriptions in Phoenician have been discovered throughout the Mediterranean, only recently have archaeologists found a substantial trove of complete texts in the Cypriot city of Idalion. Josephine Quinn comments on what’s in them, and what isn’t:
September 20, 2017
Stopping Academic Boycotts Is Part of a Larger Contest for the Soul of the University
Propaganda vs. scholarship.
The Israeli Supreme Court Shields Hamas Members from Punishment
A “mind-boggling” ruling.
The Phoenicians May Have Given Europe and Ancient Israel Their Alphabets, but They Left behind No Literature
Could it because they lacked a national identity?
Rare Footage of Rosh Hashanah in Tangier
Reading the Torah and blowing the shofar.