The “Belt and Road” initiative.

Anti-Semitism seems to be diminishing.

Greek authorities prevented Jews from rebuilding.

Israel is the driving force for energy development in the eastern Mediterranean.

What Palestinians say when they can speak freely.

From left and right.

A bygone Sephardi metropolis.

Composing silabarios to prepare for apocalypse.

Thessaloniki’s Monastiriotes synagogue.

And rebuilding its synagogue.

A counterweight to Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean.

An ancient community, destroyed by Hitler.

30 years ago, it stood poised to go down the same path.

There’s a special character to Cretan Judaism.