Iraqi Shoutout to Jews of Kurdistan
The Jewish Journal reported earlier this week that Iraq’s first lady, Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, wife of President Jalal Talabani, paid
The Jewish Journal reported earlier this week that Iraq’s first lady, Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, wife of President Jalal Talabani, paid
Trying to push American Jewish seniors to vote Democrat, the Jewish Council for Education & Research has enlisted Sarah Silverman
I confess to making a dumb and painful mistake in Israel last month: trying to harvest a sabra fruit with
We’ve come a long way since 1985, when Israeli travelers I met in China had to hide their “real” passports
The UNWRA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) has received a serious amount
In our current issue, we printed a letter from a reader who was curious about Rabbi Gershon Winkler’s response to
Tunnels. The very word connotes ancient secrets, mystic rites and modern adventure. Israel is blessed with tunnels both natural (the
Indiana Jones, err, archaeologists discovered a 2,600 year-old bulla bearing the name “Gedaliah ben Pashur” in the City of David.
The Jerusalem Post reports that a Syrian swimmer, Bayan Jumah, withdrew from the eighth 50m freestyle preliminary heat today. Jumah’s
Last week, as the state of war was officially declared between Russia and Georgia over the region of South Ossetia,
In an almost ironic story, Ynet reports that some relatives of Saddam Hussein were denied refugee status in Israel: The
Alas, the über-hyped 2008 Beijing Olympics are upon us. A few weeks ago, we had an overview of Jewish news