With the urbanization of Jews in Czarist Russia came not only great wealth, but increasing assimilation and anti-Semitism.

When the Czars decreed that every Jew had to have a last name (in order to identify and control them), ...

Napoleon attempted to revive the Great Sanhedrin, the Supreme Court of Judaism in Biblical and Talmudic times, and through it ...

The Chassidic movement was able to reinvigorate among European belief in the Messiah, which had been toned down after so ...

The great fortifications that the Hasmonean kings built and a law about Chanukah that teaches us a tremendous lesson about ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, undisputed leader of Sefardic Jewry, was able to restore the crown of Torah to its glory and ...

Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Bertitchev became famous for always defending otherwise indefensible Jews and see the good in every situation.

Self-hating Jews have plagued the Jewish people since time immemorial. David Mamet wrote a powerful book that addresses the phenomenon ...

From the Greeks and Romans to 19th century Reform Jews and today’s pundits, the death of Orthodox Judaism has been ...

Among the many legends about the Vilna Gaon is that he invited the Maggid of Dubno to come to him ...