(Author: Cecil Bloom, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) Sir Mark Sykes The support of Mark Sykes (1879-1919), noted primarily in history as one of the authors of the Sykes-Picot Agreement that planned the post-war division of ex-Turkish territories, for Zionism was primarily based

(Author: Cecil Bloom, Vol. 64, No. 3, Chanukah 2009)   The Jewish people have had many Gentile sympathizers in history, men and women with sincere attachments to the Jewish struggle for a National Home in Eretz Israel. Long before the Balfour Declaration of 1917, there were