Jewish History

Sarkozy (and Suicide) in Israel

Some wild and unfortunate events ended French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to Israel today. An Israeli official says a policeman ...

Eli Gonen says, Israel has not maximized its tourism potential, in large part because of only fitful attention from the ...

This week our homepage features articles about what makes meat kosher. But lately, the focus has been on what makes ...

Jeffrey Goldberg reports that one source of tension between Ehud Olmert and some Jewish leaders is that the latter â€œloathe ...

This medieval work describes the ideal life of the pious Jew.

Over at the Fundermentalist, Jacob Berkman and the JTA staff have come up with a list of Jewish organizations that ...

Last year, I blogged about the closing of the Ziv Tzedakah Fund, and I received a letter from one of ...

Medieval Italian scholar pioneered the 'scientific' study of the Jewish past.

If you see a Duchifat in Israel, don’t be alarmed. It’s just the Hebrew word for a Hoopoe, the new ...

Donna Rosenthal gives some examples of the astonishing ignorance of many media figures about Israel. (The Forward) The French Court ...

Dear Conservative Movement, It’s been a few months since I’ve had to write you a nasty letter, and I was ...

Much as been written about the ongoing crisis at the AgriProcessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa and the repercussions. JTA ...