History & Ideas
The Jewish Legion was not just a military force but an instrument of Zionist diplomacy—a symbolic resurrection of the Jewish national spirit.
The musician as historian.
Some say its author was Meir Kahane, the founder of the Jewish Defense League. Is that right?
Once one of the world’s largest and most important Jewish communities.
Reading long after the ink has faded.
Some of them viewed things in a more inspiring light than that of political and material interests.
A lesson for those who claim a distinction between “anti-Israel” and “anti-Jewish.”
Remembering the Malmedy massacre.
Out of the pages of history, the distinguished scholar and essayist Gertrude Himmelfarb offers intellectual, moral, and political aid for our time.
The mystery of the Magdala stone.
The revolution that wasn’t.
And how it thereby helped to secure the legal foundations of the state of Israel.
The real “Jew Süss.”
As do Jewish rebels’ arrowheads.