Modern Jewish History

        One of the most beautiful areas in Israel is the Judean Desert. Even though the word desert in English conjures...

Whereas younger people in their adolescent and early adulthood years constantly look forward (I think that is why history teachers...

I know that it sounds strange but Herman Wouk is an important person in my life. I met him only...

            A friend of mine told me of an interesting conversation that occurred between two professors at a Catholic university...

I have recently completed reading two biographies about two very diverse but influential people.   I will admit going from the...

His political opponents are either in Western exile or in Russian prison on dubious charges of tax evasion and money...

In an article in Commentary magazine, Professor Ruth Wisse wrote a very thoughtful article about anti-Semitism in our time. She...

May 1 was always the traditional day of commemoration and inspiration of the Socialists and Communists and their supporters and...

Sir Martin Gilbert has written “In Ishmael’s House” a popular history of the Jewish experience over almost fifteen centuries of...

Rabbi Meir Shapiro The daf hayomi learning cycle of studying one page of the Babylonian Talmud every day was inaugurated...