How Israel Can Avoid a Constitutional Crisis
The judiciary evaluates judicial reform.
September 13, 2023
The Sephardim of Seattle
A historic synagogue modeled on the Hagia Sofia.
On the eve of World War I, roughly one third of Seattle’s Jews were Sephardim, making the city a rarity in the U.S., where by this time the overwhelming majority of Jews were Ashkenazi. Most of these Jews had come from modern-day Turkey and the Greek island of Rhodes, both of which were then part of the Ottoman empire. Judy Lash Balint describes the community’s history:
September 13, 2023
America Shouldn’t Succumb to Counterterrorism Fatigue
The global jihadist threat has not degraded all on its own.
Education Is No Antidote to Anti-Semitism
The case of Boštjan Zupančič.
The Binding of Samuel
How the story of Hannah mirrors that of Abraham.
The Sephardim of Seattle
A historic synagogue modeled on the Hagia Sofia.