Abraham Lincoln

For the sixteenth president, freedom was something holy.

Michael Lucchese
April 17 2025 12:01AM

Lessons from a Jewish revolutionary and a Hebrew date.

March 27 2025 12:01AM

The first president to think of Jews as a political force.

Feb. 18 2025 12:01AM

Philo-Semitism, anti-Semitism, and the “almost chosen people.”

Feb. 28 2024 12:01AM

From Thomas Jefferson to modern Middle East policy.

May 30 2023 12:01AM

The truth is stranger than the legend.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Feb. 10 2023 12:01AM

For Lincoln, perpetuating American slavery beckoned the Lord’s wrath.

Andrew F. Lang
Jan. 20 2023 12:01AM

A democratic republic needs something like the Bible more than Bible believers need a democratic republic.

Yisroel Ben-Porat
Oct. 26 2022 12:01AM

“I should like to visit Jerusalem sometime.”

July 1 2022 12:01AM

“But a man came from behind the curtains and . . . and killed this tsaddik.”

David Geffen
Feb. 18 2022 12:01AM

The worst episodes of U.S. anti-Semitism have been followed by philo-Semitic backlash.

Feb. 11 2022 12:01AM

Land of hope.

Wilfred McClay and Meir Soloveichik
April 27 2021 12:01AM