The Skeptics
Back to the article The Hope of Israel – Menasseh Ben Israel Despite its atmosphere of perceived religious tolerance, Amsterdam, or “The New Jerusalem,” had its limits. It made room for heretics, but managed to...
Henry Goldblum
Dr. Henry Goldblum, lectures on the Second Temple period at the OU Center in Jerusalem. A retired lawyer, Dr. Goldblum's field of expertise is the late Hasmonean Kingdom and the reign of King Mattathias Antigonus
Caesar’s Footprints
Back to the article That Galilee Affair – Julius Caesar In the second half of the first century BCE, Judea played host to some of the ancient world’s greatest celebrities. Cleopatra and Mark Antony left...
That Galilee Affair – Julius Caesar
Was the fate of Judea as a Roman province sealed from the moment Julius Caesar switched sides in the Hasmonean leadership struggle? Or could Herod’s brutal path to kingship still have been blocked? Either way,...
The Hope of Israel – Menasseh Ben Israel
Inspired by rumors of the Lost Ten Tribes, he sought to fulfill the age-old vision of redemption by scattering his people to the very ends of the earth. Rembrandt von Rijn, Baruch Spinoza, and Oliver...
