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Ultra-Orthodox Jews look out over the Western Wall and the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, December 17, 2015. (Esther Rubyan/Flash90)

UNESCO’s mistake on Jerusalem

The resolution was yet another shallow attack on identity elements, the same type I reject every time Israel does it to Palestinians. It was also a setback to the kind of UN action that could actually move the bar in a region that desperately needs it. UNESCO has made a startlingly bad move in voting…

By Dahlia Scheindlin October 15, 2016

Iranian Jews, Hamedan, 1917. (University of Texas at Austin Perry-Castañeda Library)

Farsi Miduni: Pushing back against cultural whitewashing

Second-generation Iranians in Israel finally allowing themselves to celebrate their unique identity. Do not disturb. By Orly Noy (Translated from Hebrew by Ela Hadad) In my childhood, as an immigrant from Iran, I was the ultimate “Persian,” always uttered mockingly. I am not sure I understood why pointing out my ethnic origin was supposed to…

By Haokets June 2, 2013