The Syrian crisis has deteriorated into a regional sectarian war, increasingly creeping over Syrian borders and into Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Israel, and Jordan.

Apology Letter to Mrs S.

Iranians voted for Hassan Rouhani because they believe that the internal human rights situation will improve under a non-hardliner.

There have been a growing number of accounts of atrocities carried out by rogue elements of the Syrian Free Army.

מִבְרֶשֶׁת שִׁנַּיִם listen and repeat A tooth is a שֵׁן (listen and repeat), while teeth are שִׁנַּיִם (listen and repeat) (a double form, even though many teeth are spoken of, not just two).A brush is a מִבְרֶשֶׁת (listen and repeat), though when the word was created in the 19th century, it may have been intended to be מִבְרָשָׁה (listen and repeat) (Wiktionary). [...]

“Colony construction on Palestinian land was the main reason for the breakdown of US-sponsored negotiations in 2010.”

It can be hard to get people to read full-length articles, especially about obscure dimensions of the incomprehensible Middle East and its never ending conflicts…

Any ideology whose logic is followed to its final conclusion leads to a horrifying and unlivable society.

Rav Lopiansky tries to actually answer some of the questions I have publicly asked about the current Charedi opposition to drafting Charedim into the army.

For some, guilt by association is actual guilt. For these people, who you know and with whom you associate determine your credibility.

The Holocaust teaches us that normal cultural and “moral” values are ignored when the victims are Jews.

Such myopic and at times obsessive focus on Israeli culpability is part of a pattern at the Guardian.