Entering Auschwitz on Saturday, January 27, 1945, the Soviet soldiers struggled to make sense of what they saw. The camp’s liberation had not come cheaply: overcoming fierce resistance from German ...

At first glance, Silent Catastrophes does little to change the perception that Sebald revelled in sadness. Drawn from two ...

Kook’s messianism, combined with his disdain for ... Emeritus of Religious Studies and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Drew University (ret.). Prior to his appointment at Drew ...

But, said middle daughter, “You made it all about Jewish Persecution ... injudicious use of power, messianism, regional alliances to make peace. And we have sages today who, like the Rabbis ...

Joshua Picard of Princeton University presented the paper "The Precedents and Origin of Djerba's Or Torah Fund," at the Jewish Studies Colloquium. For the launch of "Dynamic Repetition: History and ...

He was simultaneously Jewish, Arab, and French ... Memmi was suspicious of the siren song of ‘universalist messianism’ – the temptation ‘to deny to the utmost all singularities, all those accursed ...

A New York judge strongly criticized the Hasidic students who were charged for digging a tunnel under the Chabad headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn ...

On Saturday morning, in the wake of the Eaton fire’s devastation — including the destruction of the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center on North Altadena Drive — the Chabad of Pasadena held ...