Heroes on the Walls of Haifa
The First Crusade 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 left...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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