Two swastikas were discovered Wednesday morning on a yeshiva in Brooklyn, just hours after Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City. Mamdani swiftly condemned the act, calling it “a disgusting and heartbreaking act... Read more »
Shafaq News Love is crossing new borders in Iraq. Once guided by tribal, sectarian, or local traditions, marriage is now reflecting the country’s growing connection to the wider world. In recent years,... Read more »
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or DEI, has become one of the most influential and controversial frameworks in American life, and has come to influence everything from hiring practices and university policies to... Read more »
On November 11, Iraqis will head to the polls for parliamentary elections, the seventh since the 2003 U.S. invasion that ushered in free and fair multiparty politics. Despite a turbulent democratic transition,... Read more »
New York’s hotly contested mayoral race came to a close Tuesday night as Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani was declared the winner. Mamdani, a 34-year-old assemblyman from Queens, carried 50.4% of the votes... Read more »
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist. anti-Israel candidate, who built his campaign around working-class affordability and assembled a diverse volunteer network, will become New York City’s next mayor after defeating Andrew Cuomo,... Read more »
For more than four centuries, Shylock has stood as one of Shakespeare’s most debated and misunderstood creations, a character who has haunted Jewish history and theater in equal measure. The Venetian moneylender... Read more »
Shafaq News – Baghdad Since Iraq’s first elections after 2003, the dispute over the “largest parliamentary bloc” has been the most decisive and contentious issue in every government formation. The concept —... Read more »
From Judeo-Shirazi to Jewish Neo-Aramaic, there’s a wide and rich range of Jewish languages, ethnolects, and dialects beyond Hebrew — many of which have been spoken for over a thousand years. These... Read more »
Shafaq News Israel’s leadership has issued the sharpest warnings in months that it could expand military operations in Lebanon if Hezbollah’s post-ceasefire rebuilding continues—raising a central question for Beirut and the region:... Read more »