Elliot Jager's Blog On Jewish Civilization

We Westerners are desperate to see the political systems in the Middle East evolve from authoritarian theocratic or oligarchical models to s...

Will the most memorable Holy Land image of Christmas 2005 be the siege of Manger Square in Bethlehem last week by hundreds of gunmen from th...

Normal and abnormal hatred The hater suffers from a pathological, obsessive, preoccupation with the object of disdain • By ELLIOT JAGER Here...

Q&A with Historian David Berger Veteran Brooklyn College History Professor David Berger has a reputation for being both a scholar and an...

Back to the ghetto • By ELLIOT JAGER A recent visit to Venice tells me that, for many Jews, ritual and a sense of connection to Jewish civil...