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He was sort of the Jewish version of Forrest Gump. He was considered one of the richest and most powerful people in the United States, a man shrouded with international mystery who overthrew governments, orchestrated coups and had government agreements amended to meet his business needs. The reason why you probably never heard his name[�]

It is commonly believed that no organized Jewish fighting force was ever established after the Bar Kokhba Revolt, which broke out in the second century A.D., until the Jewish Legion was founded by Ze’ev Jabotinsky and Joseph Trumpeldor during World War I. An examination of the historic turnabout that occurred in the Jewish mindset –[�]

In keeping with the proverb that great minds think alike, the inspiration for the name given to the popular two-piece bathing suit, the bikini, also came from the same source – the smallest particle of an element, the atom. As fate would have it, at the same time that a French automobile engineer named Louis[�]

Every time you go to a polling place to cast your vote or every time you are given maternity leave paid for by the government; and every time you take a day off to do errands or receive income support during a pandemic – try and remember that those benefits should not be taken for[�]

A few weeks ago I came across a BBC debate that had been held between the former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, the late Jonathan Sacks zt”l, and the evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins. It was a fascinating war of words between two intellectual powerhouses: one of the participants was the[�]

“On December 27, 1955, a naval court martial in Israel sentenced the soldier Eliahu Itzkovitz to three months in prison after being tried for desertion.” That report was provided by the military correspondent for the daily newspaper Herut on May 21, 1959, after it was cleared for publication four years after the event. The brief[�]

“What are the Jewish geniuses up to,” pondered the distinguished American philosopher, William James, as he witnessed throngs of Jewish immigrants crowding into the Lower East Side in Manhattan, New York in the late 19th century. James was a visionary. The interaction between tens of thousands of Jews from villages in the Pale of Settlement[�]

A few months before his tragic death, the circus artist, Zishe Breitbart, put on a nighttime performance in the city of Lublin, Poland. That afternoon, while getting full on soup with kreplach (dumplings) and kishka (stuffed derma) at one of the local eateries, a large crowd of Jews started gathering outside the restaurant, eager to[�]

The author, Jonathan Safran Foer, wrote that “Jews have six senses. Touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing and…memory. While Gentiles experience and process the world through the traditional senses, and use memory only as a second-order means of interpreting events, for Jews memory is no less primary than the prick of a pin, or its silver[�]

The evening of January 23, 1963 marked the start of a public trial held by the Jewish Agency against the Algerian Jewish community. Over 100 men and women crowded into the auditorium of the Jerusalem Artists’ House, where the key charge leveled against Algerian Jewry was their alleged flawed Zionist sentiment. The person behind the[�]