Jewish History

Thoughts from Rabbi Shai Held

Mechon Hadar’s Rabbi Shai Held wrote the following personal and beautiful words about the inauguration, which he has kindly allowed ...

A friend of mine, Michael Millenson, has a piece over at the Huffington Post about why tomorrow is an amazing ...

If you haven’t seen Pesach Stadlin’s Love Song to Islamic Fundamentalists (from a Jew), we highly recommend you hop over ...

The Washington Post has an interesting article about the Vatican’s “tribunal of conscience” which is an extra special level of ...

Well, it’s official: Astroland has closed, and it isn’t opening up again. Although rumors are flying everywhere (am I the ...

As Meredith noted recently, the Holocaust film industry is experiencing (even by Holocaust film industry standards) a very successful run, ...

I’ve been getting a lot of Facebook invitations to ask me to attend Pro-Israel rallies the past couple of weeks.There ...

Dmitriy Salita is a Ukranian-born, Brooklyn-raised boxer who, at the age of 26, has an undefeated record over 26 career ...

The ultra-frum neighborhood where I grew up in Chicago has been subject to anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalism in the past ...

England’s Jewish Chronicle is running a great Op-Ed by Daniel Reisel about the Jewish legal obligation to avoid civilian casualties ...

In The Case for Israel, Alan Dershowitz devotes two chapters to people who he refers to as “More Israeli than ...

I was out with a friend on Sunday and came across the Chrismukkah Cookbook. Written by Ron Gompertz the cookbook ...