Elliot Jager's Blog On Jewish Civilization

In case, in the holiday rush, you missed these 5776 Jewish New Year tidbits, here we go. They're from the Sept 11, 2015 Haaretz (Hebrew...

Nowadays, I read my news-and-views mostly online. I still get a print newspaper delivered to my door every morning – Haaretz in Hebrew (do...

To find sanctuary and profit in the new world, Jews sometimes played a prominent role in the machinery of slavery, I learned from scholar ...

We enter this Shabbat with heads bowed. On Thursday night, a criminally insane ultra-Orthodox man stabbed six people at the annual ...

Israel and ISIS are kinda basically the same -   Page 12 Friday magazine  (17 July) A make-believe Mad-magazine-like version of the we...