Spanish Jewry’s Golden Age
An illuminated Chumash from the El Escorial Library collection in Madrid. (photo from Courtesy…
Florence: flower of Tuscany
The Great Synagogue of Florence, one of the most beautiful in Europe,…
Charedi community confronts mental illness
An artists’s rendering of the new facility now under construction in Bnei…
This year marks the seventh
According to Jewish law, every seven years, agricultural fields are to lie…
Christianity stands accused
The Catholic Church did not initiate diplomatic relations with the state of…
Ancient hatred writ large
Near the end of World Without Jews (Yale University Press, 2014), we…
Chua and Rubenfeld attempt to explain success
Jews are the quintessential successful minority group by any economic measure. They…
PhD research sparks fiction
Shirley Graetz’s She Wrote on Clay (Hadley Rille Books, 2013) is so…
For Jews, sorry is not enough
Christianity and Judaism have many customs and symbolism in common. Naturally, as…
Learning from tragedy
It was Aug. 9, 2001. I was in Jerusalem after 19 years…
