If Syrian Refugees Are the New Jews, Who Are the New Nazis?
America’s shame is worse than anything that the protesters imagine.
February 3, 2017
Judaism Returns to Sicily
Over 500 years after its expulsion.
Until the expulsion of its Jews in 1493, Sicily—then a Spanish province—was very much at the center of Jewish life in Italy. Afterward, many Jews who had undergone conversion to Christianity in order to remain in Sicily continued to practice their religion in secret. Some of their descendants today recall nominally Catholic family members preserving such Jewish customs as lighting candles on Friday evening. On January 12—the anniversary of the expulsion—the city of Palermo opened a synagogue, the island’s first in a half-millennium. Rossella Tercatin writes:
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Stirring up Arab Outrage against a Move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem May Not be So Easy
Empty threats.
How the Islamic Enlightenment Came and Went
How 19th- and 20th-century Muslim intellectuals, clerics, and rulers attempted to come to terms with Western civilization.
With a Former Chief Rabbi in Jail, It’s Time for Israel to Rethink the Institution
The rabbinate has lost its constituency and is losing respect as well.
Judaism Returns to Sicily
Over 500 years after its expulsion.