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RABBI HANINA ben Teradyon was executed by the Romans following the fall of the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 C.E. AS he was burned alive while holding a Torah in [...]

DURING WORLD WAR I, Lieutenant Harry Truman was assigned to run the regimental canteen at an Army training camp in Oklahoma. To make it a financial success, Harry took on [...]

TWO CENTURIES AGO, Percy Bysshe Shelley challenged his friend Horace Smith to a 19th-century version of a poetry slam. He had read of the acquisition by the British Museum of [...]

THE OLYMPIC TORCH relay is one of the most celebrated of international spectacles. Kindled in Greece, the torch is borne by runners around the world, ultimately ending up at the [...]

EARLY IN 2021, a niche online argument made its way onto the front page of the Wall Street Journal, complete with a catchy headline: 'Designing a Flag for Yiddish Takes [...]

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY years ago, a journalist by the name of Samuel Clemens published Innocents Abroad, the book that made his career and which remained the best-selling book in [...]

'JEWS DO NOT SHOOT AT JEWS.' So the young Menachem Begin confidently assured a worried young man on June 20, 1948, just after Israel became the world's newest nation. A [...]

JOHN ADAMS was certain he would be forgotten. 'The History of our Revolution,' he fretted to Benjamin Rush, 'will be one continued Lye from one End to the other. The [...]

IN 1969, Winston Churchill's biographer Martin Gilbert interviewed Edward Lewis Spears, a longtime friend of Gilbert's subject. 'Even Winston had a fault,' Spears reflected to Gilbert. 'He was too fond [...]

Why does no one find it remarkable that in most world cities today there are Jews but no one single Hittite even though the Hittites had a great flourishing civilization [...]

ONE EVENING IN 1663, the London socialite Samuel Pepys decided to check out London's latest attraction: Jews, who had just been allowed back into England. Pepys sought out a typical [...]