Mystical Politics

Istanbul's Istiklal Avenue, happening now. pic.twitter.com/r9rHMnqzuX — Piotr Zalewski (@p_zalewski) April 24, 2015

Today the New York Times reported on a video by Daesh (the Islamic State) allegedly of the murder of Ethiopian Christians in Libya.   Du...

Today is the ceremony of the Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre - it's Holy Saturday according to the calendar of Orthodox Ch...

This is another illustration from the same Haggadah, fol. 6 - the participants surrounding the Seder table. The same heimish Jewish faces a...

My colleague, Stephen Clancy, Professor of Art History at Ithaca College, has identified the source of the image in the previous post. It is...

This is one of my favorite depictions of Jewish men from a medieval manuscript, because they all look so haimish. This image is taken fro...

Cloister of the Redeemer Church Last Friday I visited the Old City with a friend, and one of the places I went was a small museum in the...

It's just after 9 pm in Israel, and when the polls close at 10:00 pm, we'll get news about the exit polls. I'm starting to get n...

Whenever I see an article in the New York Times that mentions Israel or Jews in any way, and comments for the article are open, I feel disma...

An article from the Daily Mail presents several instances of people "walking while Jewish" through various European cities - all ...

A couple of days ago, a friend and I went in search of a calm, natural place to spend a couple of hours, and we found the Eshta'ol ...

Today, ancient Assyrian statues were destroyed. But many more still remain, and the past will never be whitewashed. pic.twitter.com/NbwbzX9...

Tablet Magazine  reports on an interesting new survey on the experiences of Jewish students of antisemitism at American colleges. A new s...

I've never been in Jerusalem for a really big snowstorm before, but now I have my own photos of today's snow in Jerusalem. These wer...