Hidden in the center of a ruby and diamond gardenia or tucked among three diamond doves, a watch by the Italian brand Sicis is not so much a timepiece as a micromosaic jewel that tells the time. Micromosaic is the signature of Sicis, which sets…

Nestled beneath a pale pink rose is a ring of purple sapphires and garnets, surrounded by blue and leaf-green diamonds; half-hidden in the moss beside a purple clover, is a pair of diamond daisy earrings, with centers of dark blue tsavorite. Like a…

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Has the jihadist threat simply become run-of-the-mill? Or has it just disappeared? You might think either of these to be the case, given how little the media, and particularly the U.S. media, seems to make of them anymore. Arrests of terror cells,…

When Alyx Carson’s father was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2020, she left her nursing job in Austin, Texas, and flew to California to be with him. Soon after her arrival, they talked about what was ahead: She told him she would like to have his…

It was a game, the child's father and his friend told her. They would visit a photographer. She would wear a beautiful white dress. But by the time the photo session ended, the little girl was married. It hadn't been a game at all. Her father's…

The exam is multiple choice, with questions about the treatment of enemies – homosexuals, for instance, and unbelievers. How should they be punished, the children are asked: with lashings? Stoning? Killed by the sword? This is not in the Islamic…

A machete attack in New York's Times Square. A stabbing at the Gare du Nord in Paris. A foiled plot in Germany. A shooting in Spain. It's still only January, but 2023 has already made it clear: the jihadist threat is far from over. With so much media…

Saleh Abdeslam is angry. They weren't nice to him during his first trial in Brussels, in 2018, when he was found guilty of "attempted murder in a terrorist context." Muslims, he said then, "are judged, treated in the worst of ways. They are judged…

Several times that week she walked along Istanbul's Istiklal Caddesi, a bustling pedestrian thoroughfare lined with shops and restaurants, crowded with street performers, chestnut carts, and couples on a promenade. She carried a red rose. And then on…

When the Brazilian designer Ara Vartanian tells his clients to “buy better,” he doesn’t mean better jewelry. He means jewelry that does good. Mr. Vartanian is one of a growing number of independent jewelers creating trends beyond just style or…

Havva still remembers how it felt the first time she walked in public without a headscarf. "I felt powerful," she recalls now, nearly two decades later. "Free. It was so liberating." She pauses a moment. "But it also felt -- normal. Like how it's…

Born and raised in post-revolution Iran, Havva grew up covering her hair every time she left the house – not because her family required it, but because the government did. She hated every minute of it, so much so that for much of her childhood, she…

It was Hassan's brother-in-law who inspired him. "He said....there is a treasure, there is a living God, Jesus Christ, and we are his children, and not his slaves," Hassan told the European Court of Human Rights last month. "He said there is a free…

When Samir Azzuz was convicted of financing terrorism last month in the Netherlands, it was not the Dutch-Moroccan's first terrorism rodeo: in 2006, as a member of the Dutch terror cell the Hofstadgroep, his detailed plans for terror attacks on the…

Königshäuser haben ein Geheimnis. Genau wie Hollywood. Aber dieses Geheimnis, das hinter Glamour, Fantasie und Vergnügen steht, ist nicht allein der High Society vorbehalten: Es ist der Glanz, das Glitzern und das Funkeln von Strassschmuck.…

Gunshots. Knifings. Cars being set aflame. All in broad daylight, all on the streets of Molenbeek. Molenbeek, Belgium, you may recall, was the Brussels neighborhood that was home to almost half of the jihadists responsible for the 2015 Paris attacks…

To read a review of Lana Melman's book, Artists Under Fire, click here. Abigail R. Esman: How did this book come about? Lana Melman: It really came out of my two big passions – my love for arts and entertainment and love for Israel. I first became…

To read an interview with author Lana Melman, click here. The announcement came earlier this month on social media: the folk band Big Thief would not be performing as scheduled in Tel Aviv. It was a complete reversal of the band's statement only a…

CHICAGO, IL - APRIL 20: A student holds up her hands while taking part in National School Walkout Day to protest school violence on April 20, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Students from around the nation joined in the walkout against gun violence on the…