Today is the third of Adar. Yesterday was (unsurprisingly) the second of Adar. There is a very interesting historical connection between t...

According to many medieval Jewish sources no species of animal can ever become extinct. This was mainstream belief, held by (and shaping pol...

Here is an audio recording of one of the classed I gave a Limmud Scotland last month. I've entitled it "Expecting the Messiah"...

One dark Chicago night in 1926, Fats Waller was leaving his regular gig at the Sherman Hotel when he was surrounded by four armed men. Wall...

Today, Amherst, Massachusetts, is a medium-sized town 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Boston, home to over 40,000 people. But in the 19th cen...