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June 1, 2013
Wander any beach this summer and you will notice two types of readers. Some ambitious souls appear to have saved their densest, heaviest, most significant reading for the lazy, languid …
December 1, 2012
By Robin Jacobson. As I write this, bloody street battles rage in the ancient city of Aleppo, as Syrian government and insurgent forces fight for dominance. Hard as it is …
July 1, 2012
By Robin Jacobson. In January 1997, Madeleine Korbel Albright made history by becoming the first female Secretary of State. Almost immediately, a startling Washington Post story shattered Secretary Albright’s lifelong belief …
June 1, 2012
Seventy years ago this July, a young Jewish girl and her family went into hiding. Fleeing the Nazis, they took refuge in a secret Amsterdam attic where the girl would …
November 1, 2011
By Robin Jacobson. In March 1933, the position of the U.S. Ambassador to Germany fell vacant, and no one, it seemed, wanted the job. Hitler had been Chancellor of Germany …
October 1, 2011
By Robin Jacobson. No one really knows what the Dutch Protestant artist Rembrandt von Rijn (1606-1669) thought about the Jews. A provocative exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is …
June 1, 2011
By Robin Jacobson. While traveling in the Middle East in 1896, two wealthy, erudite Scottish sisters bought some antique manuscripts. Little did they imagine that this souvenir purchase would lead …
March 1, 2010
By Robin Jacobson. Soon the Torah cycle will come around again to Leviticus (Vayikra). After the dramatic stories of Genesis and Exodus, the litany of rules in Leviticus can seem …
March 1, 2009
At Purim, we celebrate the heroism of the young Queen Esther who saved the Jewish people of Persia. Less famous than Queen Esther, but equally brave and clever, Dona Gracia …
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