Books
The life story of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, is interesting enough on its own, but when told by…
Ours was a generation that grew up in the shadow of the crematoria and the glow of the Israeli flag.…
In the winter of 2001, David Rubin and his three-year-old son Reuven (“Ruby”) were driving on Patriarch’s Road from Jerusalem…
You will not enjoy reading Mourning Under Glass. And that is exactly why you should read it. It is not…
“There were always choices to make,” recalled the Austrian-born Jew Viktor Frankl after enduring three years in Auschwitz and concentration…
As flames enveloped the Warsaw Ghetto, a Polish resident of the city’s “Aryan” side, observing the incineration of his Jewish…
I begin, and end, in the same place: decimation.
In my Jewish Perspectives on the Experience of Suffering, I wrote that those who place truth over happiness often get…
Though James G. McDonald strove to save German Jews from the Nazi menace and contributed significantly to laying the groundwork…
The noted writer Nat Hentoff, who describes himself as having “abandoned our God but not abandoned our people,” explained that…
Many volumes have been published on the shiurim of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the Rav, who served as the pre-eminent…