In India, a Jewish Outpost Slowly Withers
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KOCHI, India -- Down a narrow, stone-paved road in a quarter known here as "Jew Town", a woman with salt-and-pepper hair was sewing glittery beads onto the rim of a Jewish prayer cap. It was just after 3 p.m. and Sarah Cohen, wearing a housedress and flip-flops, sat in the sunny doorway of her shop,...
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - They survived three decades of war but risk being toppled by road traffic -- the last five mediaeval minarets of Herat are being slowly shaken to dust.
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Israel says Jewish immigration has fallen to fewer than 20,000 in the last year.
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BANIYANI, India -- It's an unused cornfield at the edge of an isolated village, an empty plot of earth that the police flattened with a backhoe and hosed down with a water tanker.
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It's a passage to India, all right, albeit a strange one.
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AHMADABAD, India -- Past the leafy Hindu neighborhoods of high-rises, children's amusement parks and glitzy shopping malls sprawls one of Asia's largest Muslim ghettos. It's a maze of half a million people, with rutted, unpaved roads, barefoot children flying kites amid smoldering garbage, and an...
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WADI FUKIN, West Bank -- The Palestinians of this village have long looked toward Tzur Hadassah, a neighboring Israeli town, for jobs building homes on land that decades ago belonged to them.
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MOUNT HARIF BORDER OUTPOST, Israel  - At a signal  from their guide, the women halt, hunched uncertainly in the  dark no-man's-land.
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At daybreak, a stream of refugees emerged from a narrow jungle path onto the runway of the wrecked air base on this island, a remote Indian outpost in the Bay of Bengal.
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Encouraged by religion, wealth and a slowdown of violence inside Israel, Jews from abroad are snapping up luxury Israeli real estate, driving prices to levels rivaling those of the 1990s, during periods of relative peace.
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BANI NAIM, West Bank -- Of the many troubles that the economic slide has brought to this town on the edge of the Judean Desert, Jihad Manassrah saw none more threatening than the growing number of single women walking in prim pairs through its narrow streets.
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In the city of Nis, in Serbia and Montenegro, the Gypsy quarter crowds in 800 people on just over two acres, a little enclave that has grown in a haphazard fashion as the city's Jewish population has dwindled.
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The lone synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania, sat locked this Rosh Hashanah as a result of a heightening local dispute that is threatening to drag two global Jewish organizations into a confrontation.
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A narrow strip of antiquity in a Palestinian neighborhood in north Jerusalem shows that the area once housed a mixed population of Romans and Jews.
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The last two years have been the gloomiest in the history of labor relations in the Israeli economy. The Histadrut, representing about a third of the wage earners in the country, was struck by a series of
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A Delhi clinic is offering hope to the desperately ill. But the medical establishment is not convinced.
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By MATTI FRIEDMAN MASADA, Israel - An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada, the desert fortress famous as the scene of a mass suicide nearly 2,000 years ago.