Jewish History
Blood of Damascus
When several prominent Jews in Damascus were accused of using non-Jewish blood to make matzah, the Jews of the world banded together to fight back. American Jewry specifically experienced its first taste of successful, united action.
The Humble Roots of American Retailing
The lives of Jewish peddlers wandering the country were difficult, rough, and filled with religious challenges.
America’s First Consul to Jerusalem
Warder Cresson's journey to Jerusalem, and to Judaism, took a convoluted path.
John Adams and the Jews
John Adams expressed Zionist sympathies, and his respect for ancient Jewry.
Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902
Jewish homemakers mobilized the women of the Lower East Side to protest the increasing meat prices.
Jewish Socialism in the United States, 1880-1920
The birth and growth of American Jewish socialism.
Ancient/Medieval Jewish History
Beit Dins and Sanhedrin
In the Second Temple period, a system of Jewish courts emerged.
Israel Before the State
Jews in the Land of Israel from the destruction of the Temple through the Ottoman Empire.
The Revolutionary War and the Jews
While some Jews fought, others suffered at the hands of the British.
Jewish Socialism in the United States, 1920-1948
The political influence of Eastern European Jews.
Radbaz (Rabbi David Ben Zimra)
Talmud scholar, Kabbalist and longtime chief rabbi of Egypt.