Ottoman

Iranian Kurdish dilemma: Should they fight for a free Kurdistan or risk being used? - opinion

As tensions rise with Iran, Kurds face a familiar dilemma: seize opportunity or risk repeating a long history of abandonment by global powers.

Kurdish coalition forces.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir tour at the Bedouin town of Tarabin al-Sana, in southern Israel, December 28, 2025.

'West Bank-ification?' Police investigate Negev arson spree as Bedouin tensions intensify

National Park – Gan HaShlosha – Sachne

Israeli archaeologists uncover medieval sugar mills beneath Gan Hashlosha National Park

ETROGIM ON display: The fruit’s distinctive bumpy skin and bright color made it both a ritual object and a coveted commodity across Jewish communities.

The ‘etrog’ wars: How the Ottoman Empire turned a sacred fruit into a global commodity


Greek PM chides Turkey for genocide against Christians

The Prime Minister blasted Ankara for its current foreign policy that, he said, is ignoring international law on the high seas.

TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Bosnian Jews, Muslims recall lesson in tolerance as extremism rises globally

Bosnia's Jews and Muslims on Thursday marked the bicentenary of the rescue of a dozen Jews from an Ottoman-era governor's jail.

Synagogue in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo

Book review: The genocide of Anatolia’s Christians

New book goes beyond Turkey’s mass murder of Armenians to address its treatment of Greeks and Assyrians

An Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child in a field “within sight of help and safety at Aleppo.”

Why Tevye the Milkman made aliyah

Tzvi Fishman is simultaneously a jokester and a deadly serious, prolific author with profound ideological commitments.

TZVI FISHMAN: Life in Israel is a constant adventure.

Personal photos capture Holy Land stories of British World War I soldiers

World War I represented the first time that British soldiers could carry a personal camera with them into a military expedition.

British soldiers pictured in the Middle East during World War I

Was the Russian Revolution Jewish?

A hundred years after the Bolsheviks swept to power, historians and contemporaries still struggle to understand the prominent role played by Jews.

A BOLSHEVIK poster from 1920 shows Lenin sweeping away monarchs, clergy and capitalists. The Russian translates as ‘Lenin cleans the dirt from the Earth.

Comment: Balfour’s real victory came at Beersheba

Historians have recorded how General Allenby had given each of his soldiers a Bible, and he was often found on his knees looking for direction from above.

Descendants of soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), ride horses along the trail that their ancestors took as troops when they made their way to Beersheba.

Max of Arabia

A 100-year-old bestseller managed to predict some of the future.

Men on camels near Wadi Rum

Preferring Ottoman Turkey to Erdogan's Turkey - a Jewish perspective

The Jerusalem Post

Turkey says Jews should appreciate the Ottoman Empire

The Turkish foreign minister charges that life was better for the Jews before the Jewish state.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, June 13, 2017.