The U.S. Is Quietly Leaving the Door Open to a New Iran Deal
Mostly dead is slightly alive.
February 14, 2023
The Mystery of the African Tribe Who Keep Kosher and Carry a Jewish Gene
The Lemba and the “kohen modal haplotype.”
Numbering about 70,000, the Lemba tribe live primarily in South Africa and Zimbabwe, refrain from pork as well as from mixing meat and dairy foods, practice circumcision, and believe in one God. Their oral traditions also state that their ancestors came from a land outside of Africa. Henry Abramson explains how modern genetic research has given credence to their claims of descent from biblical Israelites. (Video, 14 minutes.)
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The King of Jordan Should Help to Restore Calm on the Temple Mount
Abdullah has the power to stop anti-Semitic sermons and the use of al-Aqsa to store weapons—but chooses not to use it.
Rabbi Norman Lamm’s Jewish Vision for Bridging the Church-State Divide
“Jewish advocacy, instead of augmenting traditional Jewish values, had come to crowd out those values.”
A Haredi Artist’s Visual Love Letters to Jerusalem
Ahuva Elisha.
The Mystery of the African Tribe Who Keep Kosher and Carry a Jewish Gene
The Lemba and the “kohen modal haplotype.”