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Ben-Gurion: A Political Life

The life story of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, is interesting enough on its own, but when told by…

BOOKS

Rabbi Meir Kahane: His Life and Thought

Ours was a generation that grew up in the shadow of the crematoria and the glow of the Israeli flag.…

ISRAEL

God, Israel, & Shiloh: Returning to the Land

In the winter of 2001, David Rubin and his three-year-old son Reuven (“Ruby”) were driving on Patriarch’s Road from Jerusalem…

BOOKS

Mourning Under Glass: Reflections on a Son’s Murder

You will not enjoy reading Mourning Under Glass. And that is exactly why you should read it. It is not…

REVIEWS

Hidden in Thunder: Perspectives on Faith, Halachah and Leadership during the Holocaust

“There were always choices to make,” recalled the Austrian-born Jew Viktor Frankl after enduring three years in Auschwitz and concentration…

REVIEWS

The Bugs Are Burning/When the Danube Ran Red

As flames enveloped the Warsaw Ghetto, a Polish resident of the city’s “Aryan” side, observing the incineration of his Jewish…

BOOKS

Between My Father and the Old Fool: A Holocaust Memoir

I begin, and end, in the same place: decimation.

REVIEWS

If God is Good, Why is the World So Bad?

In my Jewish Perspectives on the Experience of Suffering, I wrote that those who place truth over happiness often get…

BOOKS

Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932–1935

Though James G. McDonald strove to save German Jews from the Nazi menace and contributed significantly to laying the groundwork…

PASSOVER

The Seder Night: An Exalted Evening

The noted writer Nat Hentoff, who describes himself as having “abandoned our God but not abandoned our people,” explained that…

REVIEWS

Sefer Shiurei HaRav on Tefillah and Keriat Shema

Many volumes have been published on the shiurim of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the Rav, who served as the pre-eminent…

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