Jewish History

Toni Morrison famously referred to Bill Clinton as the “first black president,” writing that he displayed “almost every trope of ...

Remember when all of Jewish Law was ruled by a committee of 71 judges, each of whom were able to ...

One of the customary practices in these nine days is the avoidance of meat: it’s the way we commemorate the ...

Now that Ehud Olmert is on his way out, it’s time to evaluate his possible successors. Or at least their ...

These past few days have been weirdly Communist-centric for me. First, my book that’s coming out in October. Then there’s ...

It seems like this little doozy from my home state of has flown under the radars of church-state separation proponents: ...

Dennis Shulman seeks to become the first ever blind rabbi in Congress.The Jerusalem Post interviews Obama and McCain. Michael Wissot ...

On Wednesday I heard John Ruskay, the executive vice president of the UJA speak at a seminar of 50 college ...

In Black Orthodox hip-hop M.C. Y-Love’s song State of the Nation, he reels off statistics gleaned from the National Jewish ...

The story of Barack Obama’s stolen Western Wall note — and its subsequent publication in Ma’ariv — is interesting for ...