Mystical Politics

If someone throws a stone at you, is it a statement of performance art, or an attempt to harm you? From a recent American visitor to the ...

During the snow a couple of weekends ago in Jerusalem many people became very creative in making snow sculptures - see below the snow cat...

Graphic from the Washington Post, December 2, 2013 , showing the holy places on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif.

Another twitter post from Real Time WWII - Grand Mufti, to Hitler: "The Arabs are Germany's natural friends because they have th...

I follow the twitter feed for Real Time WWII, and this is today's post:  Nazi occupiers of Czechoslovakia have taken over walled fortres...

The Banality of Robbing the Jews I just saw this article on the New York Times website - about what happened when the Nazis deported Jews ...

So now the UN is destroying the Assad regime's chemical weapons - but what about all the rest of them? We stand by with our hands fo...

Henry Ossawa Tanner, "The Wailing Wall", ca. 1898 Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) was an African American artist (born in Pitts...

Some good news from the world of Hebrew manuscripts.  The National Library of Israel  in Jerusalem is digitizing and will be posting online ...

Speaker of the House  Boehner  said today that the  U.S. Is On A Path To Default , unless President Obama gives in to the Republicans. He sa...

This is the  craziest political movement  I've seen in many years - western so-called "pacifists" volunteering to go to Syria ...

From the twitter feed of someone living in Damascus ( https://twitter.com/d_sights ): d_sights 21m 7- took a deep breath and relaxed...

The New York Times has a detailed report on the nerve gas attack in Syria: BEIRUT, Lebanon — Thousands of sick and dying Syrians had flood...

I just received this email from Doctors without Borders (because I'm a donor). As you may have heard, Doctors Without Borders/Méd...

A Tweet by the Guardian: Observer front page: Cameron and Obama on the brink of Syria intervention http://t.co/1Iam2cm1FA — The Guardian ...

Guardian article on -  Did Assad's ruthless brother mastermind alleged Syria gas attack? [M]aher al-Assad has in many ways played a mo...

Doctors Without Borders, which both has medical personnel in Syria and gives support to medical facilities in the Damascus area, reports tha...

In case you thought the nonsense about "pinkwashing" was limited to castigating Israel for being a relatively decent place to live...

Jacob Mikanowski in Tablet has a really interesting article on a Jewish kingdom in Yemen just before the rise of Islam:  Yemen, the Crucible...

The Israeli government will probably be releasing over a hundred Palestinian prisoners (almost all of them murderers) as part of the process...