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-The Best Defense // Yagil Henkin
Ben-Gurion could never have declared a state in May 1948 without first painstakingly transforming Palestine’s ragtag Jewish militias into an army
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Year of the Locust // Ari Greenspan and Ari Z. Zivotofsky
The recent swarm of locusts that invaded southern Israel was nothing compared to the great plague of 1915. Amid drought and world war, the locusts brought famine and death
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A Soul Divided // Asael Abelman
Though baptized at age twenty-eight, Heinrich Heine remained torn between Judaism and German nationalism, tradition and modernity
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Jews Down the Well // Lior Alperovich
The Norwich blood libel was history’s first to target Jews. Could the ancient skeletons recently found in the town belong to the victims?
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Dangerous Liaisons // Tal Ilan
Royal, rich, and well-connected, thrice married and twice widowed, lover of the emperor’s son, and a Jewess to boot, the great-granddaughter of Herod the Great set the Roman Empire’s teeth on edge. Meet Berenice – the Jewish princess
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Book review
Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Moshe Arens // Elka Weber
Seventy years after the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Moshe Arens’ book recalls the forgotten fighters who did not live to tell their story
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Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as Racism, Gil Troy // Yitzhak Klein
A new book enshrines a moment of diplomatic heroism that today’s politicians would do well to emulate
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From the Archives
The Angry Convert // Hadassah Assouline
A letter sent by Lenin’s great-grandfather to the czar was intended to make as much trouble as possible for the Jews of Russia
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History Lives
True Freedom – Natan Sharansky // Anat Adler-Tal
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