Balkans

Salonica was once known as “The Mother of Israel.” However, the Jewish community’s former glories are now mostly found in archives of aging photographs and the fading memories of elderly survivors. 

It’s one thing for the newspaper to have conducted such an interview, ill-advised though it may have been. It is entirely another to have gone ahead with its publication knowing his views.

In this ‘Jerusalem Post’ exclusive, President Milorad Dodik of Republika Srpska, one of two entities that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina, talks about Srebrenica, modern-day Bosnia, Israel, and Putin.

Hence, by singling out Srebrenica while ignoring other horrors of the Bosnian conflict, the UN is implicitly suggesting that Serbs alone were perpetrators, and everyone else were victims.

Since the modern inception of the idea of Jewish statehood and the birth of Zionism, the Serbs have always proposed the notion that the Jewish people should be their own masters with their own land.

The friendly relations between the Republic of Serbia and the State of Israel are reflected during the current tragic days of war.

Serbia is not interested in perpetuating conflicts. Instead, it focuses on international alliances and the prosperity of its own people.

Tensions have run high in Kosovo, the former Serbian province, after clashes broke out in May between Serb protesters and authorities.

Ish-Ran says the current series is partly designed to enlighten us about the various strains of piyutim (liturgical poems) that were once commonly recited across the Jewish world.

TRAVEL ADVISOR: There is simply no reason that Belgrade cannot be elevated to the ranks of Prague and Budapest.