Elliot Jager's Blog On Jewish Civilization

"Be sure not to wear a kippa on the street," a veteran Hungarian-Israeli businessman cautioned as we deplaned at Budapest'...

Three Jewishly-conflicted German speakers changed the course of modern history. By the time the first, Karl Marx, had died in 1883 Sigmu...

Most Israelis embrace Shamir's view of the futility of territorial concessions yet support withdrawals needed to implement the two-sta...

Bernard Wasserstein is a non-Zionist historian sympathetic to Israel while critical of its policies. Now based at the University of Chicago,...

When your hometown happens to also be a spiritual and political powder keg – a point of pilgrimage as well as strife – it's easy to find...