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Osman Bey and the Birth of the Global Jewish Conspiracy

Just when we thought we could all agree that the idea of a global Jewish conspiracy was launched by the 1903 Protocols of the Elders of Zion, we find out about a 19th-century man of intrigue who got there first. Frederick Millingen, aliases (Major) Osman Bey and (Major) Vladimir Andrejevich, went by many names, but […]

By Madeleine Elfenbein

Meet Soulika, Morocco’s Jewish Joan of Arc

For some reason, the story always goes like this: king sees beautiful lady; has option to buy a girl a drink, get to know her better; instead opts for “Nope, demand that she give up her religion and marry me or I’ll decapitate her.” Why, kings, why? A victim of king-scrub behavior less well known […]

Ukraine’s Massive Hasidic Rosh Hashanah Party

Picture this: thousands and thousands of Hasidim, dressed in flowing white, singing and dancing through the streets of Uman, Ukraine, on their way to the river for the ritual of Tashlikh. But this is no shtetl fantasy: It is the annual Rosh Hashanah kibbutz (gathering), a massive pilgrimage of Hasidim to Uman, the town […]