Biographies

The position of rabbi took on renewed importance in Poland and Eastern Europe and helped develop the Jewish community in...

Solomon ibn Gabirol is considered one of the primary philosopher-poets in Jewish history. His masterpiece, Keter Malchut, is the poem...

The Maharam of Rothenburg, one of the greatest medieval rabbis, was kidnapped by Christians and ransomed for an exorbitant sum,...

The Great Debate between Nachmanides and an apostate Jew before King James I of Aragon marked a turning point in...

  On 22 Shevat, 41 CE, Emperor Caius Caligua was assassinated. Agrippas was the grandson of Herod. (He is sometimes...

Burial place of Simon ben Yaakov. Simon was a “man of war,” but his father’s wisdom...

Rabbi Akiva arguably represents a combination of everything that is heroic about the Jewish people more than anyone else. At...

Old synagogue in Troyes. May 8, 1146 was the date of one of the most extraordinary...

Cave where Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his son Rabbi Elazar hid for thirteen years. Photo...

Caesarea, the seat of the Roman government over Judea. Photo by Ian and Wendy Sewell. Published...