In the introduction to his popular and influential history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2000), Oxford University Professor
Snow had fallen since morning, leaving the roads useless by dusk, and was still falling heavily. The city’s plow trucks, though deployed in full force
In August I went to Abuja, capital of Nigeria, and met with Congregation Beth Sholom’s Rabbi Barry Dolinger and Naomi Baine, who had journeyed to
I initially learned about Qes Efraim Zion-Lawi, the first Israeli-born qes, from an article written by Germaw Mengistu (“To integrate into Israeli society, but to
Twenty-seven year old Qes Efraim Zion-Lawi, the first Israeli-born qes (traditional Ethiopian Jewish religious leader), will visit the Jewish community of Rhode Island during the
Jerusalem—This year I was fortunate to make a second pilgrimage to Israel in order to celebrate the annual Sigd holiday of Ethiopian Jewry and to
This article is a follow up of sorts to August’s Igbo Jews of Nigeria Study and Practice Judaism, which briefly told of my journey from
In addition to his lasting contributions to science and government, the American founding father Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) also managed to posthumously influence Jewish thought and
