At the dawn of the 1900s, the horrific Kishinev pogrom and the Beilus trial dashed Jewish hopes of a future ...

The First Aliyah, Jewish settlers to the Holy Land from 1881-1901, were secular, idealist and extremely naïve about Arab reaction ...

In 1897, Theodore Herzl declared at the First Zionist Congress, “Today, I have founded the Jewish state. It will take ...

A new type of anti-Semitism arose in the 1800s - one based on race, not religion. The culmination of this ...

The Netziv, Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin: While yet a teenager in his father-in-law’s house, the ...

Between 1882 and WWI, despite great obstacles, Jews immigrated in droves to America, the New World, changing not only Jewish ...

The modern day return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel began over 150 years ago with a ...

The Mussar Movement met opposition from within and without after the death of its founder, Rabbi Israel Salanter, but spread ...

The Mussar Movement combined with the Yeshiva Movement held together the Jewish people from being swept away by the tide ...

Chanukah is made up of 2 radically different components. One is the war. The other is the miraculous event of ...