Biographies

Eddie Jacobson and Harry Truman in their haberdashery shop in Kansas City, Missouri Alben Barkley, vice...

Moses Mendelssohn, 1729-1786 History tends to judge people far differently than their contemporaries do. Many people...

Plaque at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel. Photo by David Shay. Published under the...

  The Rambam's house in Fez, Morocco Just as with Rashi, it is impossible for the...

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki One of the tendencies of modern historiography is to debunk past heroes. Revisionist...

Baron Edmond de Rothschild There is a tendency in very wealthy families for some of the...

Amschel Mayer Rothschild In the Middle Ages, the Church, in a misapplication of the Biblical prohibition...

Sir Moses Montefiore February 15th is the anniversary of the liberation of the Jews arrested in...

American Jews today take for granted their right to hold high public office, head major corporations, and be enormously influential...