Jewish History

A known Israeli mobster, Yaakov Alperon, was assassinated on Monday in Tel Aviv.  Alperon’s car blew up, killing him and ...

Yesterday evening, I had one of those rare moments when I found myself watching the evening news (Truth be told, ...

In the wake of Barack Obama’s victory, there’s been quite a bit of laudable introspection on behalf of the Jewish ...

Now that we will have our first African-American president, it’s time to start speculating about the next ethnic/gender/religious barrier to ...

Hey kids, it’s that time of week again, where you get to exercise your democratic right to give your opinion ...

Last year there was a sad story of a synagogue in Tajikistan that had to be destroyed because the government ...

This is a how-to guide. Fame is an arbitrary thing, where the spokesperson for a certain person or issue is ...

Yesterday’s New York Times profiled the recent rise in home birthing, a concept that started out as the only option ...

The Telegraph has reprinted an article that was first published on November 12, 1938, the day after Kristallnacht. What’s so ...

From our friend Kung Fu Jew: kungfujew18 is praying, “Barack atah Illinois, Elohenu melech ha’olam, hoo-ray p’ri ha-electoral landslide.”

We didn’t get it together to put up a Veterans Day post yesterday, but I wanted to mention that there ...

The sadly no-longer-updated site Jew of the Day was a great gimmick for teaching about random Jewish people — from ...