Rabbi Berel Wein's impact on the Jewish world blossomed not only from his films, books, and audio lectures, but also the founding and leadership of institutions. Jewish scholar, historian, and leader ...
Tomorrow will mark the thirteenth day of what future historians might well dub the “Iranian nuclear missile crisis.” Set off by the overwhelming Israeli air campaign against Iran begun on June 13, the ...
Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap. Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to ...
Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to call is Jonathan Sarna. Jews and the Civil War? Sarna knows where the bodies are buried. Need a quote about Jews and bagels?
In December 1947, shortly after the United Nations voted to give the Jewish people a state of their own in the soon-to-be-former British Mandate of Palestine, a symbolic act took place in Italy. The ...
A friendly exchange between Bundist figure Henryk Erlich and his father-in-law Simon Dubnow, Jewish historian and advocate of Jewish Autonomism, concerning the Zionist movement. In his article, Erlich ...