Jewish History
In Every Generation, We Must Tell the Passover Story
I have often tried to imagine how the Israelite slaves in Egypt responded to the Ten Plagues, the midnight flight and sudden Exodus into...
Violence and the Sacred
Judaism is less a philosophical system than a field of tensions - between universalism and particularism, for example, or exile and redemption, priests and prophets, cyclical and linear time and so on. ...
Obama, FDR, and Zionism
President Barack Obama has spoken of his deep admiration for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his desire to emulate FDR's style of leadership. But many Israelis will be hoping that sentiment does not extend to President...
Between Destiny and Chance
The third book of the Torah is known in English as "Leviticus", a word deriving from Greek and Latin, meaning, "pertaining to the Levites". This reflects the fact that in Judaism the priests...
Grim 75th Anniversary: Hitler’s Dream, Austrian Jewry’s Nightmare
Adolf Hitler had long dreamed of making his native Austria a part of Germany and...
Jewish Leaders Call for Further Measures to Protect Mount of Olives Cemetery
Jewish leaders this week asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take further steps to...
Israel Escapes Locust Plague in Advance of Passover
In advance of Passover, Israel has successfully escaped the plague of locust that threatened...
A Holocaust Pageant That Was ‘Too Political’ for FDR
Seventy years ago this week, 40,000 New Yorkers watched as Jewish activists and Hollywood celebrities...
Jesus, Bill O’Reilly, and the Romans
The question of who killed Jesus or who was primarily responsible for the crucifixion...
In Every Generation, We Must Tell the Passover Story
I have often tried to imagine how the Israelite slaves in Egypt responded to the Ten Plagues, the midnight flight and sudden Exodus into the...
Violence and the Sacred
Judaism is less a philosophical system than a field of tensions - between universalism and particularism, for example, or exile and redemption, priests...
Obama, FDR, and Zionism
President Barack Obama has spoken of his deep admiration for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his desire to emulate FDR's style of leadership. But many Israelis...
Between Destiny and Chance
The third book of the Torah is known in English as "Leviticus", a word deriving from Greek and Latin, meaning, "pertaining to the ...
Grim 75th Anniversary: Hitler’s Dream, Austrian Jewry’s Nightmare
Adolf Hitler had long dreamed of making his native Austria a part of Germany and subjecting Austria's Jews to the same fate he had in...
Jewish Leaders Call for Further Measures to Protect Mount of Olives Cemetery
Jewish leaders this week asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take further steps to secure Jerusalem's ancient Mount of Olives ("Har Hazeitim" in Hebrew)...
Israel Escapes Locust Plague in Advance of Passover
In advance of Passover, Israel has successfully escaped the plague of locust that threatened to damage the country's agricultural industry—for now. "Officials sprayed the...
A Holocaust Pageant That Was ‘Too Political’ for FDR
Seventy years ago this week, 40,000 New Yorkers watched as Jewish activists and Hollywood celebrities joined hands to bring news of the Holocaust to the...
Jesus, Bill O’Reilly, and the Romans
The question of who killed Jesus or who was primarily responsible for the crucifixion has been debated by scholars, biblical experts and ordinary...
Study Equates Zionist Pioneers with Arab Terrorists
The film is grainy and amateurish, but the image is stirring: one-armed Yosef Trumpeldor, Zionist national hero, ploughing a field in the Galilee in 1913. By coincidence,...
Knesset Archives Go Digital
What did first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion say in the Knesset in 1952 on the issue of reparations from Germany? How surprised was the Knesset...
Jewish Museum of Vienna Deals With Items Looted by Nazis
Twenty-five years after the founding of the Jewish Museum of Vienna, museum officials have admitted that many of the items in the museum's possession were...
Purim and the Evolution of Judaism
It always amazes me how Judaism has succeeded in evolving (or shall we say, for the sake of political correctness, reinvigorating itself). After all, the Bible...
Morocco Restores Ancient Synagogue in Nod to Jewish Heritage
Morocco held a ceremony on Wednesday to inaugurate the completion of renovations to an ancient Jewish synagogue in the historic city of Fez. The two-year...
