A refurbished 5th-century Christian site in the Gazan city of Jabalia was opened to the public this week. As i24News reports:
More about: Archaeology, Byzantine Empire, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Middle East Christianity
A refurbished 5th-century Christian site in the Gazan city of Jabalia was opened to the public this week. As i24News reports:
More about: Archaeology, Byzantine Empire, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Middle East Christianity
In the 1930s, a Republic Jewish judge, observing his coreligionists’ commitment to the Democratic party, quipped, in Yiddish, that Jews have three velt (worlds): di velt (this world), yene velt (the next world), and Roosevelt. Since then, Jewish devotion has attenuated somewhat, although Jews still overwhelmingly lean Democratic. Most American Jews, however, are unfamiliar with the terms “this world” or “the next world” in any language. Carefully examining a wealth of statistical data, Samuel J. Abrams and Jack Wertheimer argue that the sort of robust Jewish liberalism that characterized U.S. Jewry a few decades ago is in steep decline. Jews, they explain, are undergoing their own version of what political scientists call the “great sort,” whereby politics, religion, and place of residence increasingly align:
More about: American Jewish History, American Jewry, Liberalism, U.S. Politics
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