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Suraj Rajan Kadanthodu

Mar 1, 2026, 6:20 AM

Mother India, Father Israel: Beyond the Controversy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Knesset during his visit to Israel on February 26, 2026. One particular phrase from his speech was edited and widely circulated on social media - “Israel is Fatherland, and India is Motherland.” Detached...

Miles Damone Mackay

Feb 16, 2026, 11:33 AM

Why Jews Flourished in Hindu India

In May 2025, I had the opportunity of visiting India's high commission in Central London, just weeks after the Islamist terror attack in Kashmir, which claimed the lives of 26 innocent tourists. Whilst I was there, I listened to...

Brad Rothschild

Feb 11, 2026, 9:55 PM

The Story They Missed Already Exists

I read with great interest Robin Washington’s recent piece in The Forward, The PBS series ‘Black and Jewish America’ gets it right — except the Black and Jewish part. Washington argues that Black Jews are too often erased from...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jan 7, 2026, 2:56 AM

Before Israel: Medieval Unions of East and West

Intermarriage between Middle Eastern and European Jews did occur before the 20th century — rare but historically verifiable, usually in port cities, diplomatic hubs, or scholarly networks. These marriages reveal how interconnected the Jewish world actually was, despite vast...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jan 2, 2026, 10:27 PM

Hebrew: The Only Language Fully Revived

The revival of Hebrew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is often flattened into a tidy legend centered on Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Still, the historical record tells a far more complex and global story—one of diasporic convergence rather...

Andrea J. Martin

Dec 21, 2025, 8:07 AM

Dancing Through Darkness: What Israelis Taught Me About Faith, Resolve, and Choosing Joy

How do we cultivate joy in a world that feels increasingly uncertain and precarious for Jews? As we prepare to enter 2026, I reflect on both the challenges our community faces and the enduring strength of the Jewish people. During...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Dec 20, 2025, 6:08 AM

Ladino: The Sephardi World in Motion

Ladino — the Judeo-Spanish born from medieval Castile — became the circulatory system of the Sephardi diaspora after 1492. As Jews relocated to Salonika, Istanbul, Sarajevo, Izmir, and North Africa, Ladino evolved into a portable homeland: a language that...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Dec 14, 2025, 2:46 AM

Yemenite Hebrew: The Sound Time Forgot

For more than two millennia, the Jews of Yemen preserved the closest living pronunciation to Biblical Hebrew, untouched by European reforms or later rabbinic standardization. Their isolation — enforced by geography and by Islamic restrictions on movement — created...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Dec 13, 2025, 10:00 AM

Moroccan Hebrew: Empire’s Living Bridge

Moroccan Jewry, the largest in the Islamic world before 1948, maintained a rare fusion of Hebrew and Maghrebi Arabic that functioned as a linguistic bridge across centuries. Unlike European Jewry, which confined Hebrew to prayer, Moroccan Jews embedded Hebrew...

Dec 5, 2025, 5:46 PM

From Jerusalem to Mars: A Black Ethiopian Jew’s Friendly Reply to Elon Musk

By Dr. Shmuel Legesse: Upcoming Author of Moral Diplomacy for a Broken World: Inspired by the Vision of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks When Elon Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that “Jews are white, if not peak white,” I didn’t know whether...

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