Netanyahu Indicted // What it means for israel and the elections
With a trembling voice and downcast eyes, Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit stood in front of the cameras this past Thursday and announced his decision to indict Prime Minister Netanyahu in connection with three...
How Iran got the US to build Israel // Israel is building American ...
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he US government has quietly constructed a series of military facilities inside the State of Israel that cost many hundreds of millions of dollars. This is a major shift in US policy. For years...
Between Iraq and a Hard Place // Alone with the Spy in One...
RECAP: When Turx was invited to join a group of American journalists to cover the first Iraqi elections since the fall of ISIS, he couldn’t imagine how quickly matters would be plunged into utter...
Last Names Can be Deceiving // Please don’t judge me by my in-laws’ money
The question is inevitable. Whenever I introduce myself, something clicks.
“Oh, your father-in-law is so-and-so?”
Yes, that’s my father-in-law. He’s the one whose name you see all over the place. He could cover the walls...
Direct from Dubai // A candid conversation with Dubai billionaire Khalaf Al Habtoor, founder...
Judging by the look on the face of the male receptionist, I can tell that he has never met a chasidic Jew before. It’s a few minutes before 10 a.m. in early September, and...
Belated Burial // A chesed shel emes performed decades later
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am making my way to the Vizhnitz beis hachaim to attend an unusual levayah—a funeral for the unidentified remains of Jews who were murdered in the Chelmno extermination camp in Poland.
I arrive at the...
Zeidy and the President // It wasn’t good for Zeidy to get worked up...
“He’s the best thing that ever happened to us!” my beloved grandfather shouted, a vein in his face bulging, as it always did when he got excited. “If you can’t see that then you...
Buried Treasure // A renovation uncovers a community’s past
On that fateful day, the construction workers had arrived as usual at the Jewish elementary school located on Malzgasse 16 in Vienna, Austria. The team began its work by demolishing an underground wall, but...
An Ounce of Prevention // An alert on an unusually virulent strain of...
“He had a small infection on his elbow,” recalled Mrs. Wiseman, a young mother of two children who lives in Brooklyn. “It was treated with antibiotics and seemed to clear up, but it kept...
