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Cheers, Family Ties and two characters named Harry and Sally.

Nerdy, yet cool.

Jewish education in America, from colonial times to today

On being a mensch — an upstanding member of society — and leading an ethical life.

A renewed influx of Sephardic immigrants around the turn of the 20th century.

A Bavarian influx changed the face of American Jewry in the mid 19th century.

The Civil War hero expelled Jews from three states until Lincoln made him rescind the order.

Encouraging signs that the nascent U.S. would welcome Jews

This Israeli philosopher saw problems with both secular and religious Zionism.

Because most Jews of this period lived in the Diaspora, Israel was an abstract concept.

Balak intuited an important truth about the Israelites: Their strength was spiritual, not military.