Iranians Are Abandoning Their Anti-Zionism
The shah’s son visits Israel.
June 21, 2023
Sicily Gets Its First Rabbi in Over 500 Years
As descendants of forced converts return to Judaism.
Jews have likely been living in Sicily since before the destruction of the Second Temple, and a community flourished there until, in 1492, the Spanish monarchy—which then ruled the island—decreed that all Jews in their lands must convert to Catholicism or leave. Now, descendants of those Jews are attempting a revival. David I. Klein writes:
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Israel Is Now Selling an Advanced Missile Shield to Germany
A sign of how far the Jewish state has come—and a strategic necessity.
The UN’s Latest Spasm of Anti-Israel Mania
A theological conviction that one people bears the sins of humanity.
What Chaim Grade Told Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The rebbe, the president, and the poet.
Sicily Gets Its First Rabbi in Over 500 Years
As descendants of forced converts return to Judaism.