Is This Mysterious Language Hebrew?
The Voynich manuscript is not written in any known language, and its 35 or so unique symbols have never been seen elsewhere....
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Opinion | Poland and Hungary Are the Tip of the Iceberg
The news from Central Europe seems to be uniformly bad: democracy threatened, rule of law subverted, historical revisionism triumphant. It all carries a nasty 1930s flavor. To Western readers, moreover, most of that news seems to come from Budapest and Warsaw. We don’t hear much...
Anti-Semitism Watch | Germany’s Far-Right Is Changing the Political Landscape
In August, far-right mobs in the eastern German town of Chemnitz hunted foreigners through the streets. In the chaos, a kosher restaurant was attacked and its owner injured. With right-wing political extremism on the rise, where will it end? [divider] On August 27 at around 10 p.m.,...
Curacao, the Island That Brought Jews to the Americas
It’s hard to imagine that at one time, this tiny island, so far from the cobblestone streets of Portugal, the canals of Amsterdam and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, had the largest Jewish population in the Americas....
Qatar, UAE and the Jewish PR Men Stuck in the Middle
An obscure lawsuit came to an end this week, with a California district court dismissing a case accusing Nick Muzin, a Jewish lobbyist working on behalf of the Qatari government, of involvement in the computer hacking of Elliott Broidy, a Jewish billionaire with deep business...
Can One Man Redeem Jimmy Carter?
Eizenstat’s main thesis, that Jimmy Carter's presidency was one of the most consequential in modern history, might raise a few eyebrows. ...
Persecuted In Pakistan
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in 2018 May/June, Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative, In the News, Religion, World
Accused of blasphemy for practicing—or even affirming—their faith, Ahmadis still cling to the country they helped establish....
Could Israel Help Cape Town’s Water Crisis?
While the average American enjoys about 88 gallons of water every day, in Cape Town, the daily limit per person is 13.2 gallons—that is, if it wants to avoid “Day Zero,” when the taps run dry....
Jews and the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution
Twenty-first century Ukraine, as Marci Shore notes in her extraordinarily deft, astute, and riveting new account of the dramatic 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, The Ukrainian Night, was too “heir to the grandeur” of the intentions of Nazism and Communism....
Morocco: Echoes From the Jewish Quarter
Signs of that Jewish community, once the largest in the Arab world, are everywhere—if you know where to look....