History & Ideas
Or simply a partisan observer?
The earliest in the land of Israel.
Isaiah’s unforgettable language serves much the same role in spoken Hebrew that Shakespeare’s does in English.
These days, many say no—but a functioning Jewish People’s Council would prove them wrong. And that’s reason enough to support it.
A Hebrew inscription, an old synagogue, and a prophet’s tomb.
“The greatest guardian” of Holocaust memory.
A tale of two paintings and one city.
A constant presence in his own movie.
The biblical spies in Ḥuqoq.
The hidden roots of the Yiddish-American expression “to shep nakhes.“
Mimicking the totalitarian habit of rewriting the past.
And the priestly blessing.
Jews of the Silk Road.
The persecution and expulsion of Jews from Arab lands.
