Abraham Lincoln
For the sixteenth president, freedom was something holy.
Lessons from a Jewish revolutionary and a Hebrew date.
The first president to think of Jews as a political force.
Philo-Semitism, anti-Semitism, and the “almost chosen people.”
From Thomas Jefferson to modern Middle East policy.
The truth is stranger than the legend.
For Lincoln, perpetuating American slavery beckoned the Lord’s wrath.
A democratic republic needs something like the Bible more than Bible believers need a democratic republic.
“I should like to visit Jerusalem sometime.”
“But a man came from behind the curtains and . . . and killed this tsaddik.”
The worst episodes of U.S. anti-Semitism have been followed by philo-Semitic backlash.
Land of hope.
Issachar Zacharie.
A unique mission to the world.