(Author: Glenda Woolf, Vol. 78, #1, Summer 2023) At the age of thirteen Mordecai Chertoff spent a year – 1935-6 – with his family in Palestine. After his return to the US, he went on to receive his B.A. at the City College of New
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 78, # 1, Summer 2023) One finds when growing older that what is general knowledge to one person is unknown to those younger. This I discovered when I spent some time recently in Cape Town’s Chris Barnard Hospital. Suspended from the high-ceilinged
(Author: Clark Zlotchew, Vol. 78, No. 1, Summer 2023) Crimea has been in the news since Russia seized it from Ukraine and annexed it in 2014. Yet Crimea had been part of Russia since the Czar’s Empire conquered and annexed the Crimean Khanate, inhabited mostly
(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 78, # 1, Summer 2023) Introduction & Background This article examines the history of the Jewish people from just before the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 586 BCE until around 400 BCE in Babylonia, Judah and Egypt. Reviewing the