History & Ideas
As told by recently unclassified documents.
Stone structures in the wilderness.
A new movie revives an old debate about the banality of evil and the perversity of brilliance.
A force behind the scenes in Operation Moses.
The question sounds absurd, but anti-circumcision activists are winning legal and policy victories—and overturning the definition of freedom of religion in the process.
The prisoner of Zion remembers his first meeting with the senator.
Told with “just the right amount of razzle-dazzle.”
Discovered thanks to 94-year-old aerial photographs.
Jews never invented the study or writing of “history,” but they did invent the idea of a beginning and an end for mankind as a whole.
Two of the 80 Jews aboard the doomed vessel.
Burton Bernstein’s Family Matters.
The Meteorologist-Turned-Professor Who Discovered the Parallels between Talmudic and Zoroastrian Law
Remembering Yaakov Elman.
Confirming the evidence of the Talmud.
