Hungarian Schism
The Price of Equality Though Jews campaigned long and hard for equality in their many countries of dispersion, the privilege proved to be a mixed blessing. In Europe, the price of emancipation was total cultural...
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Mystery of Caesarea’s Disappearing Port
Impressive and Unique Wending its way up the Mediterranean coast, and weighed down with its cargo of Egyptian wheat, the great merchant ship was headed for Rome and its bustling grain markets. But why not...
The Battle on the Hill
Fighting for Jerusalem In 2003, about a year before Reserves General Rafael Eitan drowned off the coast of Ashdod, he spoke to a group of tour guides on the lawn by San Simon Monastery, in...
Napoleon’s Jewish Court
The True Heirs of Palestine Jews have been fascinated by Napoleon Bonaparte ever since he became fascinated by them. Jewish folklore chronicles his affection and admiration for the people of the book. In Jerusalem’s Hurva...
The Jewish Girl who Set the Wild West Ablaze
Gunfight at the OK Corral The legendary gunfight between Sheriffs Morgan, Virgil and Wyatt Earp on one side, and the Clanton and McLaury on brothers on the other, broke out on October 26, 1881, at 3...
Haifa and Salonika – the Jewish Ports
Herzl's Port "The coast of Palestine rose on the horizon on a spring morning following one of the mild, soft nights common in the eastern Mediterranean. They stood together on the bridge of the yacht...
Lights, Camera, Zionism!
Pageant September 4, 1946. Brimming with emotion, Ben Hecht stood center stage. Tears filled his eyes, blurring his view of the cheering crowds below. Of all his many plays, scripts, books, and articles, this time...
Lords of the Desert
Ancient But Sophisticated Many tribes filled the Arabian Peninsula two thousand five hundred years ago, but virtually none of their names have survived. The same would doubtless be true of one particularly industrious and ambitious...
My Son, the Pirate – Samuel Pallache
Few rabbis have lived as colorful a life as Samuel Pallache. Merchant, diplomat, and emissary to the king of Morocco, Pallache even resorted to piracy to exact his people׳s revenge on the Spanish fleet כותב...
Newton’s Fourth Law
A Determined Infant So then ’twas one designe of ye true systeme of ye first institution of ye true religion to propose to mankind by ye frame of ye ancient Temples, the study of the frame of the world as the true...
Heroes on the Walls of Haifa
Fall of the Byzantines In 1071, the Byzantine Empire was dealt a crippling blow when a tribe of Mongolians conquered Anatolia, today a popular tourist destination in Turkey. The Seljuks, as they were called, had...
