Bolder and More Brutal’: New Report Shows Steep Increase in Antisemitic Violence in German Capita

Click Here to Read: ‘Bolder and More Brutal’: New Report Shows Steep Increase in Antisemitic Violence in German Capital by Ben Cohen on the Algemeiner website on April 17, 2019.  Jews burned alive for the alleged host desecration in Deggendorf, Bavaria, in 1338, and in Sternberg, Mecklenburg, 1492; a woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493).  Public Domain via Wikemedia Commons.

What Ahad Ha’am Saw and Herzl Missed—and Vice Versa

Click Here to Read: What Ahad Ha’am Saw and Herzl Missed—and Vice Versa: The unresolved rivalry between the great Zionist thinker and the great Zionist strategist still shapes the contending outlooks of many 21st-century Jews by Hillel Halkin on the Mossiac Magazine website on October 5, 2016.

Portrait of Ahad Ha’am (Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg).  Public Domain Via Wikemedia Commons

The Ghetto: 503 years after the first Jewish enclave was instituted in Venice, what does the word ‘ghetto’ mean today?

Click Here to Read: The Ghetto: 503 years after the first Jewish enclave was instituted in Venice, what does the word ‘ghetto’ mean today? By Benjamin Ravid on the Tablet website on March 26, 2019.

Street in the Venetian Ghetto, Venice, containing various Jewish food and other stores.  Photo:  Ethan Doyle White. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.