It did not come from the deserts of the Hijaz, and Arab Colonizers of the Levant did not discover hither unto ignored garbanzo beans. The allegations of Jewish culinary appropriation were not ...

With the exception of Binyamin Netanyahu, perhaps Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s prime ministers, of all political ...

At first glance, Israel and Lebanon, just to its north, share much in common: Both are small, ethnically diverse Levantine countries ... JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over ...

The owners, Mohammad and Mona Safadi, are Druze, members of a monotheistic ethnoreligion that originated in the Levant. The Druze people have had a tenuous relationship with other groups in the region ...

For nearly two years, Zenobia reigned over the Levant, Egypt, and eastern Anatolia ... a phrase understood as religious tolerance toward Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Sabeans.

The second verse flips the narrative about Jewish colonization of Israel by referencing the Muslim conquest of the Levant in the seventh century. The song, he told JTA, is meant to “expose this ...

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. (JTA) — Six months ago, the notion of peace between Israel and Lebanon seemed ...

in a recent interview with Jewish Insider. “I just thought it was so foolish,” he said. “Israel lets me into their country. I have ancestral ties to the Levant, like Lebanon, like Syria, and they ...

As a matter of geography, it is obviously incorrect — Palestine is not everywhere; it is in the southern Levant. But I sensed (correctly ... postcolonial societies might become. Like orthodox Jews ...

I discovered Jewish history, philosophy ... I come from the Middle East, specifically from the Levant. My father’s family are Sunnis from Damascus. My mother’s family are Shiites from a village near ...

American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal to the Trump ...