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July 3 In Jewish History 323:  Constantine the Great defeated Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople. Constantine ruled the western half of the Roman Empire.  Licinius ruled the eastern half.  In 313 the two rulers had issued the Edict...

Plan ahead—these Seattle events may sell out. by Stranger Things To Do Staff On our Things To Do calendar, you'll find hundreds of events happening this month in Seattle. Some of them are already sold out (like A Conversation with the Parents of Trayvon...

From Ian: Eugene Kontorovich: The Problem With Using the Tax Code to Punish Israeli Settlements J Street and like-minded progressives are campaigning to eliminate U.S. tax exemptions for charitable groups that provide support to Jewish communities...

One of the Israeli Navy’s German-made submarines. This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. As I write, I am crisscrossing Germany and...

Hawa Allan Bulwarks against the tidal wave of horror . . . #SelfCare Poem: “In Service of Staying Alive“, by Lynne Procop. Novel: That would be Deep Singh Blue, by Ranbir Singh Sidhu — a coming-of-age novel about a Sikh-American teen growing up in...