SIGHET, ROMANIA – Local leaders and Jewish dignitaries from around the world gathered Thursday in Sighet, the birthplace of Jewish … More
Tag: Religion
Coming out, getting in
Payam Feili is a gay Iranian poet. Nadav Schwartz is an Orthodox Israeli Jew. But in ways both astoundingly similar … More
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 … More
What’s your beef
Sitting in his spacious office in the town of Kfar Kanna, near Nazareth in the Galilee, Ahmad Effendi Meat Co. … More
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 … More
Magic bowls of antiquity
Sometime around 650 AD, Mahdukh, daughter of Newandukh, had a headache. I first read about Mahdukh’s migraines – excruciating and … More
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 … More
The war on women in Israel
Sexist laws and institutions threaten women in Israel, but Arab women are beset from all sides
An Israeli undercurrent rippling through Guantanamo
Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s “Guantanamo Diary” has been, as the censors say, heavily redacted
Doing justice to Josephus
For most of Jewish history, Flavius Josephus was the odd man out
Animating the Talmud
The Talmud has never looked so good
Gay orthodoxy
Trembling Before G-d begins with ultra-Orthodox Jews wearing sack-cloth
Samuel Thrope 