Jewish History

A “large number of lower-level Hamas activists have recently been released from Israeli jails after serving sentences of about five ...

Jonathan Spyer explains why Syria is in no particular hurry to reach a deal with Israel. (Jerusalem Post)Zvi Bar’el makes ...

This week’s homepage features a “Back to Hebrew School” special, with an article on how to choose the best school ...

As if Agriprocessors/Rubashkin’s isn’t keeping PETA’s hands full enough, Italian animal activists, citing Pope Benedict’s well-known love of cats, are ...

Ari Alexander guest blogged from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World League under the ...

Score one (more) for budding innovative technologies in Israel: at Beit Ha’iver, the Center of the Blind, in Herzliya, a ...

A New Jersey Conservative synagogue finds that instrumental music draws crowds for a Friday night service. (NJ Jewish News)Five synagogues ...

My Hasidic father-in-law, after being initiated as the president of his local branch of United Israel Appeal (an organization that, ...

The Olympics are supposed to be a unifying event, bringing together the world for 17 days of friendly competition. Yet ...

Do you ever notice how, for a paper with so much anti-Israel tactics, the New York Times sure reports a ...

The headline says it all: “Jews discovered on Upper West Side”