Modern Jewish History

Jewish nationalism is rooted in the ideas of Torah and Jewish tradition, as evidenced by the plight of Soviet Jewry...

2,000 years of bottled up emotion exploded when Israeli soldiers suddenly chanced upon the newly liberated Western Wall during the...

The new State of Israel in 1952 had to face one of the most explosive and emotional issues imaginable: Should...

Since 9/11, the West lives in fear of sudden terror. The roots of modern terrorism are linked to Yasser Arafat...

Israel won the Sinai and gave it back 3 times until they kept it in 1973. Then they returned in...

The trial of Rudolf Kastner trial in Israel tore apart the nation less than a decade after the Holocaust, pitting...

In 1242, Louis IX, later St. Louis, had 24 cartloads of the Talmud burned, effectively ending Jewish life in France...

The anti-Semitic canard of usury is rooted in the discovery of paper money and the Catholic Church’s doctrine forbidding the...

In 1948 the Jordanian Legion captured the entire Old City of Jerusalem and leveled the Churva...

The disaster of 9/11 caused people to pray who previously were not counted among those that...