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Tag: Religion

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 … More

antisemitism, Religion, Travel

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

Iran, israel, Literature, Religion

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

israel, Persian, Religion, Translation

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

Food, israel, Palestine, Religion

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

Arabs, Christianity, History, Islam, Palestine, Religion, Reviews

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

Art, Ethics, Hebrew, History, Iraq, Judaism, Religion

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

Afghanistan, History, Iran, Judaism, Persian, Religion

The war on women in Israel

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

Feminism, israel, Palestinians, Religion, Reviews

An Israeli undercurrent rippling through Guantanamo

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

America, Religion, Reviews

Doing justice to Josephus

For most of Jewish history, Flavius Josephus was the odd man out

History, Judaism, Religion, Reviews

Animating the Talmud

The Talmud has never looked so good

Art, Judaism, Religion

Gay orthodoxy

Trembling Before G-d begins with ultra-Orthodox Jews wearing sack-cloth

Film, Judaism, Religion, Reviews
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