Finally, the rarest Jewish texts from Italy will be available online
In an initiative funded by the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe, some 35,000 books will be catalogued over the next three years
No, that Trump bible photo isn’t ‘beautiful’ — it’s terrifying
The President doesn’t care what many people think. He only cares what his people think.
His ads changed how Jews were perceived — do they still matter?
There was nothing in the Jewish world quite like Gary Wexler’s ads. Now they’re in the National Library of Israel.
For Jews, curfews bring eerie reminders of Medieval and Holocaust eras
“To prevent Jews from moving about the city at night, gates were erected at the two bridges leading out of the Ghetto nuovo.”
Pandemics have always incited anti-Semitism. Here’s the history you need to know.
Today’s rise in anti-Semitism feels medieval. But it also has to do with an American story of retaliating against minorities during emergencies.
Why Zoom means boom time for Ladino
Ladino is one of the most important diasporic languages in Jewish history.
How Trump uses blood libel rhetoric against ‘invisible enemy’
President Trump’s choice of language has something in common with “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
How people across the globe are discussing social distancing
Translators and lexicographers are working overtime as new virus-related terms enter our daily vocabulary.
Why Trump’s ‘foreign virus’ speech is as dangerous as coronavirus itself
The idea that outsiders or foreigners are both dangerous — and dangerous to health — is straight out of the Nazi playbook.
From an Israeli master, one final gift
Ronit Matalon’s novella is very short, very fast — and very Israeli.