Paying Off Hamas Won’t Bring Quiet to Gaza
As hundreds of missiles testify.
November 15, 2018
The Accidental Fire That Destroyed Jewish Thessaloniki
Roasting eggplants proved more dangerous than wars.
At the end of the 19th century, Jews constituted a plurality of the population of the Ottoman city of Salonica; this continued to be the case after 1912, when Greece seized the city and renamed it Thessaloniki. When World War I broke out, Thessaloniki played an important role as a harbor for Allied naval forces, and it endured a bombardment by Austrian planes in 1915. A single housewife roasting eggplants, however, would bring much greater destruction to the city, and especially its Jewish quarter, when an accidental fire in her kitchen got out of control. Ro Oranim writes:
November 15, 2018
Democrats Must Censure Anti-Semites in Congress
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
Don’t Trust Middle East Experts to Predict the Future
As they move the goal posts on Israeli reconciliation with the Arab world.
Ancient Oil Jugs Shed Light on the Biblical Idea of the Covenant
When the kings of Judah were vassals of Assyria.
The Accidental Fire That Destroyed Jewish Thessaloniki
Roasting eggplants proved more dangerous than wars.