American Civil War
Two Israelis on a road trip venture to Arlington National Cemetery and encounter there the graves of brothers.
The Supreme Court’s ruling this week will help mend America’s frayed culture by strengthening its religious institutions. It couldn’t have come at a better time.
Embracing the connection between two stories of emancipation.
An antidote to current debates.
A Jewish surgeon’s Civil War manual.
Reflections on the 150th yahrzeit of President Lincoln.
Jews settled in Florida long before it became a destination for vacationers and retirees. In Orlando, the first recorded Jewish settlers arrived shortly after the. . .
“There, in the wild woods of West Virginia, away from home and friends, we offered up to the ever-loving God of Israel our prayers and sacrifice.”
The film Twelve Years a Slave uncritically accepts its protagonist’s assertion that the Bible legitimized the enslavement of African Americans. The truth is more. . .
By serving in the military and in many other ways, American Jews had an extraordinary opportunity to play out their lives as individuals, to the. . .
The battle at Gettysburg took place 150 years ago: a blink of an eye in the millennia since Sinai. Such uncanny intimacy with the. . .