Crash Course

In 1897, Theodore Herzl declared at the First Zionist Congress, “Today, I have founded the Jewish state. It will take...

A new type of anti-Semitism arose in the 1800s - one based on race, not religion. The culmination of this...

Between 1882 and WWI, despite great obstacles, Jews immigrated in droves to America, the New World, changing not only Jewish...

The modern day return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel began over 150 years ago with a...

The Mussar Movement met opposition from within and without after the death of its founder, Rabbi Israel Salanter, but spread...

The Mussar Movement combined with the Yeshiva Movement held together the Jewish people from being swept away by the tide...

Rabbi Moses Sofer started the first yeshiva in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It differed from yeshivas in Poland, but turned back...

The Yeshiva movement 200 years ago was revolutionary in its time, and the main defense against Haskalah, guaranteeing the furtherance...

In the 19th century in Russia there occurred a drastic change in Jewish life whose ripple effects are still felt...

In the 1800s, the Czar of Russia dealt with his “Jewish problem” in three ways: conversion, emigration and destruction. Through...