“‘Paperwork’ fees? Paper won’t be invented for two thousand years. What a racket.” Hebron, November 23 – The patriarch Abraham decided to buy his own burial ground to bury his late wife after encountering exorbitant prices to inter her in ...
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“A direct encounter with what these people have to say is preferable than to have it filtered through the lens of our editorial sensibilities.” New York, November 22 – A post-election assessment of the slanted coverage the publication produced during ...
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It remains unknown whether the boy ever succeeded in his quest. Qumran, Judean Desert, November 21 – Scholars exploring the remaining pieces of ancient parchment not included in the formal collection of writings known as the Dead Sea Scrolls have ...
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The same kind of divider has facilitated the presence of both males and females in the same prayer space while maintaining dignified separation. Tel Aviv, November 21 – Amid resurgent controversy over the integration of women into military combat roles, ...
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By Abraham My beloved Sarah has passed on after a hundred -twenty-seven years, and now I turn to the task of acquiring a burial place for her – that is, for us. It is appropriate, then, to integrate the reunion ...
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“I think it’s because of someone else’s obituary,” he surmised. Ankara, November 20 – One of the few remaining reporters or commentators in Turkey who has not been silenced or imprisoned by the authorities in the last several months has ...
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“Trump is a bigot,” proclaimed the legislator, whose party supports homophobia and misogyny, and denied the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish State. Jerusalem, November 16 – No date has been announced for the trip to Israel President-elect Donald Trump ...
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If the behavior of the land were any indication of its awareness, one might come to the erroneous conclusion that it favors non-Muslim rule. Jerusalem, November 17 – The strip of land nestled between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan ...
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Bensouda and her colleagues now face the prospect of a raft of withdrawals from the Court and the undermining of their effort to uphold international law. The Hague, November 17 – Plagued by a spate of recent withdrawals from the ...
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“Why these people can’t keep their information straight, I don’t know, but I’m about ready to burn down the whole city just to get some rest at this point.” Sodom, April 15 – A man who shares a name with ...
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