Spice & Spirit
Mayer Niknava has been in the United States for 25 years. He married an Ashkenazi woman. Still, every Friday night, his house is filled...
Light Of The East
It was four years ago this March that a three-story, 20,000-square-foot building modeled after the magnificent Persian palaces of ancient Iran, was dedicated. The...
Ancient & Modern Collide
Today, Iran’s relationship with the Jewish state — and some say with the Jews — is explosive, or potentially so. It wasn’t always this...
The 21st-Century Iranian Jew
On Nov. 26, Toobah Nehdaran, 57, was murdered in her home in the Jewish quarter of the city of Isfahan in Iran. The murder,...
Ultimate Top 10
It may be two week since Jan. 1, but the mouthpieces that topped the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of top 10 anti-Semites of 2012...
#Hashing It Out
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is now tweeting in Arabic on a new Twitter account opened in mid-December. The development caught the attention of...
Israel-EU Tension
This month, some of Israel’s strongest friends in Europe — Britain, France and Germany — summoned their ambassadors to protest the Jewish state’s construction...
Jerusalem 5800
Economics and prosperity speak to everyone.
That is the message of about a dozen city planners in Jerusalem, who are working together to transform the...
Insights on Israel, Tzedakah and Tikkun Olam
Israeli author and scholar Noam Zion will offer a weekend of study Jan. 11-13 at Beth Am Synagogue. Zion, 64, will present perspectives on...
Hip And Holy
It has been about three years since The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore and the Greater Baltimore Jewish Community Center made a decision...
