Can Israel defuse the demographic time bomb of a growing Arab population? Can Israel, a country that's come so far and sacrificed so much, keep up the will to fight? Daniel Gordis is confident his fellow Jews can renew their faith in the cause, and in Saving Israel , he outlines how....
Bowman's district is significantly more fertile ground for attacks than Bush's; it boasts a hefty Jewish population and is plurality white. Bush's district is more urban and about 45% Black, according to Census data. Bowman also had some presence as a former middle school princ...
Rabbi Asher Lopatin poses at a Jewish historic site in Damascus, Syria, as part of the first Jewish delegation to the country in 33 years, February 18, 2025. (credit: Courtesy of Asher Lopatin) A once-thriving Jewish population For more than a century Syria became increasingly inhospitable ...
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The mermaid has beenswimmingthrough human consciousness for millennia. She appears in early religious texts, including the book of Jewish law known as the Talmud, and in the mythologies of countless separate cultures [source:Stieber]. Rome's Pliny the Elder described a mermaid-like creature in hi...
Much of the variation created in this way will be disadvantageous to the organism and will be selected against in the population. When a rare variant sequence is advantageous, however, it will be rapidly propagated by natural selection. Consequently, it can be expected that in any given ...
"Whether it's Irish or Jewish or any 'ish,' we all share the same feelings," said Butler. "I think that's why live performances are still so important." Ultimately, it's the songs that bring the past into the present. "A lot of people don't realize how much Irish music that was...
To read through the resolutions some NDP members would like to debate at their policy convention, you might think they've lost their minds
Heck’s attitude is probably best summed up in a passage from his 1952 autobiography. Much of Europe was still in ruins, Poland was recovering from the trauma of losing one-fifth of its population and the world now knew of the millions gassed, starved, hanged and shot by Nazi Germany in...
A coalition of Christian and Jewish organizations filed a lawsuit last week asking a federal judge to block the policy change, arguing it infringes on their religious freedom and violates the Constitution. Officials haven’t responded to that lawsuit. But in a similar suit filed by a coalition ...