Closing the PLO Office in Washington Was the Right Move, but Cutting Funding to an East Jerusalem Hospital Wasn’t
President Trump’s scorecard on the Palestinians.
September 17, 2018
The Last Jews of Uzbekistan
The twilight of the once-great communities of the Silk Road.
The former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan is home to the three great Silk Road cities of Central Asia—Tashkent, Samarkand, and Bukhara. Since the early Middle Ages, these cities have been home to Jewish communities; their descendants, who now mostly live in Israel or the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens, are known generally as Bukhari Jews after the most prominent of these communities. During the Soviet era, significant numbers of Ashkenazi Jews—along with people of many other ethnicities—were deported to, or settled in, Uzbekistan. Armin Rosen, returning from a visit to Uzbekistan after having spent Rosh Hashanah in the capital of Tashkent, reports on what remains of the country’s Jews:
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The U.S. Is Correct to Stand Up to the International Criminal Court
Defending America and its allies, including Israel.
Netanyahu Is Right to Preserve Relations with Strongmen—and Even with Rodrigo Duterte
Israel needs allies.
How Edward Said’s Ideas Perverted the Study of Ancient Jewry
Jews were neither xenophobes nor perpetual victims.
The Last Jews of Uzbekistan
The twilight of the once-great communities of the Silk Road.