The Flood

Hardly was the work of creation completed when God decided to destroy what he had made. “The earth became corrupt…

This is not the end

At its height, around 620 CE, the Sasanian empire ruled over a territory stretching from Jerusalem in the west to…

Reading Rorty in Tehran

When the late American philosopher Richard Rorty arrived to deliver a lecture in Tehran on a summer night in 2004,…

Our men in al-Sham

Over the last few years, Seth Frantzman and Jonathan Spyer have reported on the ground from Syria and Iraq, as…

Moving mountains

It’s a sunny day and I’m cruising down the nursery slope at Israel’s Mount Hermon ski resort. By noon, hundreds…

Ahmadinejad’s bizarre bid for political relevance

In early April, the United States designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the most powerful branch of the Iranian military,…

Double vision

As the US breaks with the status quo by moving its embassy from Tel Aviv – and a spate of…

Over 3,500 North Americans immigrate to Israel in 2018

A total of 3,546 new immigrants came to Israel from the US and Canada in 2018, according to a year-end…

A patriot and humble servant

George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States who died late Friday at the age of 94, was…

Jerusalem? Tel Aviv? What is Israel’s best city?

Jerusalem is one of the five most least livable cities in Israel, according to a new report released by the…

A familial tragedy

Between 1989 and 2000, from the fall of the Berlin Wall until the rise of Vladimir Putin, nearly a million…

Farrakhan compares Trump to Satan during visit to Iran

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan compared US President Donald Trump to Satan and encouraged Iranians to resist American “plots”…

Iranian immigrant raises over 1m. for Pittsburgh synagogue

Shay Khatiri, an Iranian immigrant to the United States, has raised more than $1 million for Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life…

‘I chose to show him empathy’

Ari Mahler, the Jewish nurse and member of the medical staff who saved the life of Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert…

In the footsteps of Elie Wiesel

SIGHET, ROMANIA – Local leaders and Jewish dignitaries from around the world gathered Thursday in Sighet, the birthplace of Jewish…

Russian Chief Rabbi: Israel shouldn’t rely on anyone

SIGHET, ROMANIA – Berel Lazar, one of Russia’s chief rabbis and a confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, told an…

Hunt for the truth

Is it possible to change your entire life? The Legacy, British journalist and Jerusalem Post columnist Melanie Phillips’s latest novel,…

Echoes of the revolution

Widespread demonstrations protesting the deteriorating economic situation continued throughout Iran on Tuesday. Pictures and video posted to social media and…

Arab-Israeli poet Dareen Tatour convicted

Arab-Israeli poet Dareen Tatour was found guilty of incitement to violence and supporting a terror organization, for poems and comments…

Iran bans Telgram

Iran’s ban of Telegram messaging app sparks infighting. Unlike previous efforts to block Facebook, Twitter and satellite TV, last Monday’s…

Coming out, getting in

Payam Feili is a gay Iranian poet. Nadav Schwartz is an Orthodox Israeli Jew. But in ways both astoundingly similar…

Oath of Blood

Imagine getting the worst news possible, learning it isn’t true, and then realizing it is after all — in the…

From the Bible to Sir Isaac Newton: How Hebrew Survived and Thrived

Sir Isaac Newton was fascinated by the Hebrew language. The pioneering English physicist, famous today as one of the founders…

What Israelis didn’t see … and Al-e Ahmad did

The most arresting and surprising part of Iranian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s Israel travelogue The Israeli Republic is his comparison…

آل احمد، اورشلیم، و من

در کوچه و پس کوچه‌های اورشلیم دنبال جلال آل احمد می‌گردم. شاید برای بعضی خوانندگان، این جمله شگفت‌آور باشد. اورشلیم…

כיצד יישב אינטלקטואל איראני את סלידתו מהמערב עם הערצתו לישראל

ישראל הצעירה והסוציאליסטית היתה ״אור לגויים״ גם באיראן שלפני המהפכה; ביקורו של ג’לאל אל-י אחמד בארץ חושף חיבורים אזוריים שנראים…

No man on the moon

A scrappy Israeli team is trying to win millions for sending an unmanned mission to the moon. During the Holocaust,…

God as protagonist

In his rather radical survey of Jewish literature from antiquity to the last century, Adam Kirsch highlights the importance of…

Occupation 101

In the summer of 2012, the people of Nabi Saleh finally made it to the spring. Every Friday since 2009,…

What’s your beef

Sitting in his spacious office in the town of Kfar Kanna, near Nazareth in the Galilee, Ahmad Effendi Meat Co.…

Why doesn’t the west care about the Middle East’s Christians?

For a conflict so often compared to a crusade, the Iraq War has been devastating for Christians in the Middle…

No one’s matter

NO ONE’S MATTER a play by Saif Diaan Persian-Hebrew translation by Samuel Thrope. Directed by Li Lorian “When I…

Magic bowls of antiquity

Sometime around 650 AD, Mahdukh, daughter of Newandukh, had a headache. I first read about Mahdukh’s migraines – excruciating and…

What fractured Jerusalem needs now

In the summer of 2014 Jerusalem broke apart, again. In those few bloody months, which began in April with the…

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: is one homeland the solution?

As support for a two-state solution to their conflict declines among Israelis and Palestinians, a different approach to finding a…

The painter of Baghan

We were six: me, my wife, our two children, the children’s uncle, and his wife, Mehri, who was seven months…

A tantalising find from the Jews of medieval Afghanistan

In 1946, the French philologist André Dupont-Sommer published the first Jewish tombstone inscription from Firozkoh in Afghanistan. Dated between the…

In praise of pastrami

Food writer Janna Gur’s “Book of New Israeli Food” is one of several recent cookbooks celebrating the rich diversity of…

The war on women in Israel

Sexist laws and institutions threaten women in Israel, but Arab women are beset from all sides

The most dangerous man in Iran

This past March Tehran University political science professor Sadegh Zibakalam said the unspeakable

Islam in Liberalism

Is Islam inherently opposed to Western liberalism?

Mizrahi music’s new Arab Israeli muslim queen

Is Israel ready for an Arab Mizrahi singer?

An Israeli undercurrent rippling through Guantanamo

Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s “Guantanamo Diary” has been, as the censors say, heavily redacted

Two

Bilingual collection of poems and prose joins young Arabic, Hebrew writers

Unnecessary Angels

The Škand Gumānīg Wizār (ŠGW) contains Middle Persian Zoroastrian literature’s most extensive polemic against Judaism. This article explores the ŠGW’s…