Jewish History

-Jason Eskenazi came to Jerusalem with 26 point & shoot cameras and over 250 rolls of film, and a plan ...

Our homepage article this week talks about the changing demographics in the rabbinate. It specifically sites a growing number of ...

Kudos to FailedMessiah for noting the upcoming lecture to commemorate Professor Saul Lieberman’s 25th yahrzeit. A couple of weeks ago ...

What’s the Jewish angle on the Eliot Spitzer debacle? Gawker helps us out under the title “Shanda fur die Goyim”: ...

-Tony Judt argues, “We have attached the memory of the Holocaust so firmly to the defense of a single country—Israel—that ...

This article from The Christian Science Monitor, asks whether a Third Intifada is brewing? Which caused me to ask, when ...

-Nahum Barnea says Israel has only two options, both “dreadful …either reoccupy Gaza or talk with Hamas.� (Ynet)-The former CIA ...

This story is just starting to make its way into the American news headlines. I’m sure there will be more ...

-Rabbis find they need to choose their political roles, if any, with care. (Washington Jewish Week) -A look at the ...

Fake memoirs are all the rage. James Frey was never was alone, and he’s gotten more company recently.Margaret B. Jones’ ...

-Can Israelis become at home in the Diaspora? (Zeek)-And, for those expat Israelis, what of the next generation? (Haaretz)-And a ...