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ONE OF THE GREAT UNANSWERED questions from the Hebrew Bible is this: What happened to the ten tribes after the northern kingdom of Israel was sundered and plundered by a succession of Assyrian kings whose names - Sennacherib, Shalmaneser, Sargon and Tiglathpileser - are attached to the sacking of the territory in the 8th Century BCE? According to The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (Oxford, 2009, 302 pp., $29.95), a luminous study of the "lostness" of the ten tribes, that empire (a predecessor to the Roman Empire) covered practically the whole Levant. One small part of the British people themselves suggested that their very name "Brit-Ish" - which would translate into Hebrew as "covenant of man" - was proof that they were the descendants of the much sought-after t...
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Hospital officials met yesterday at the Washington Hospital Center to learn more about how to prevent a terrorist attack, including a suicide bombing. Be prepared to say, 'I'm prepared to do everything in my power to stop a suicide bomber,' " Shbomo Ben Dor, a former security director of a hospital in Jerusalem, said during the Hospital Security Preparedness program at the hospital's National Rehabilitation Center.
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Jazz The Marsalis Family, "Music Redeems" (Marsalis Music, on sale by Aug. 24). Irresistible. Consummate jazz show business recorded in concert at the Kennedy Center, from the opening salvo, family drummer Jason whistling, trading four-bar phrases with trumpet player Wynton and then merging with him on Charlie Parker's "Donna Lee" before family patriarch Ellis -- arguably the greatest father in jazz history -- takes the kind of solo a pianist has to take when he's in the company of musicians as fine as his sons. This is the Marsalis Family Band -- Wynton, Branford, Ellis, Delfeayo and Jason -- with bassist Eric Revis as the only ringer. "It's impossible for us to tell you how much we love our father," says Wynton, while giving more than a few shoutouts to Mom, too, before th...
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Prof. [Ilan Pappe], in part addressing such advocates of a two-state formula as Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein, founded his argument for a single state on an historical infrastructure. The two-state concept corresponds to the existing balance of power, and amounts to an element of a Zionist project which started in the late 19th century and is still in progress; in 1948, the Zionist leadership ordered the systematic and forcible expulsion of Palestinians, and the world seemed to accept the idea that Holocaust victimhood and Zionism were one and the same thing. The expansionist project has generated terrible trouble; if until 1966 the military rule under which the Palestinians lived was "tolerable," the Israeli victory in the 1967 war gained for it a hundred per cent of Palestine - ...
