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Itamar Rabinovich

Jul 8, 2018, 12:38 PM

Rethinking Jimmy Carter

Stuart (Stu) Eizenstat is well known and highly respected in Washington, the Jewish world and Israel. Currently a partner in a major Washington law firm, he served as US ambassador to the EU and as Under Secretary of the...

Jul 3, 2018, 1:45 AM

Nature Speaks — Listen! the Aurora Has Something to Say

It’s hard not to feel Nature singing God’s praises, whether in the vivid blue sky overhead this afternoon… or in the brilliant aurora, when the sun showers electromagnetic particles on Earth’s polar atmosphere to produce shimmering curtains of colored...

Walter Hilliger

Jul 2, 2018, 11:10 AM

The Judeo-Spanish origin of sugar cane

In February, just before the Symposium, I had very good news: The Royal Spanish Academy has recognized Judeo-Spanish as an official Spanish language. It will be included in the international dictionary of the Spanish language. This took place 525...

Jun 28, 2018, 7:56 AM

Reaching Young Evangelicals in the Language of Digital Culture

The passionate support of millions of Evangelical Christians in the United States for Israel is valued by the people and government of Israel. Israelis feel confident in the pro-Israel activities of the growing number of Christian Zionists who are...

Jun 28, 2018, 7:01 AM

Nature Speaks — Listen! The Grass Has Something to Say

Since early childhood I’ve been spellbound by the endless varieties of life that pop out of simple clumps of grass. Now it’s a delight to pass this tiny adventure on to my toddler grand-daughter. It’s hard not to feel...

Jun 24, 2018, 2:28 PM

The storybook with its own survival story

The aftermath of the 'Kristallnacht' pogrom in Germany, November 1938 (public domain)

How one Agnon tale about making aliyah survived Kristallnacht and made aliyah

Nicholas Jagdeo

Jun 23, 2018, 12:07 AM

A twenty-first century Abraham and a Trini.

UK-born T&T novelist Nicholas S Jagdeo’s The First Jew – The Resurrection of Abraham does not, in its storyline at least, travel down entirely familiar Caribbean literary terrain, but there is more than a hint of Trini engagement of...

Jun 21, 2018, 3:26 PM

Book review – Hasidism: A New History

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game gets the best players in the game onto two teams every year. But what one see from this is that getting the best players together doesn’t always mean they are integrated team that...

Sheldon Kirshner

Jun 21, 2018, 2:46 PM

The Caliphate At War

Whether Islamic State was merely a flash in the pan or an organization still capable of regenerating itself after devastating battlefield defeats, it has already cast a dark shadow. Spreading fear and terrorism throughout the Middle East and Europe following...

Jun 21, 2018, 7:01 AM

Nature Speaks — Listen! Lightning Has Something to Say

On the East Coast of the US we were inundated with unusually heavy rain throughout the late winter and spring, and even Israel has seen unseasonable rains recently. Yet even during the storms and in the brief glimpses...

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