The National on MSN6h
From Cairo to Cambridge: The remarkable journey of Ben Ezra Synagogue's hidden manuscripts
In Cairo’s famous Ben Ezra Synagogue, one of the city’s most prominent Jewish landmarks, a treasure trove of history lay ...
Why Trump’s Plan to Relocate Gazans Is Untenable for Jordan
President Trump’s plan would send a huge number of refugees to Jordan, adding new frictions to the kingdom’s often tense, ...
The Times of Israel13h
The custom that refused to die (Yitro, Covenant & Conversation)
It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...
The New Yorker1d
What Did the War in Gaza Reveal About American Judaism?
He had just stepped down from a tenure editing the magazine, during which it endorsed both the Iraq War and Joe Lieberman’s ...
jewishchronicle.timesofisrael2d
My Jewish family was forced out of our homeland. We must not let Gazans suffer the same fate.
My family was forced out of Iraq and Tunisia for being Jewish — homes stolen, communities erased and history rewritten. To ...
In Trump’s Cross Hairs Over Taking Gazans, Egypt and Jordan Try Diversion
The U.S. president has repeatedly asked the two Mideast allies to take in two million Palestinians from Gaza. Both Egypt and ...
The Times of Israel4d
Haftarat Parshat Yitro: Of Humans and Angels
This discrepancy between human and angelic perspectives plays a central role in Chazal’s account of the giving of the Torah, ...