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The Jewish Pioneers

While Jews were tolerated in the New World, they were hardly made welcome by the Protestant majority—until they played a military and, more importantly, a financial role in the Revolution.Different, or the Same?

For over a century, American Jews have asserted that America and the Jews are a perfect fit. Is it true?The Man Who Stood Alone

Yitzhak Shamir fled Poland for Palestine, determined to live his commitment to Jewish self-reliance.  He did so with unswerving vision, until his death this past Saturday. Roots of the Right

Despite Ben-Gurion’s attempts to silence Begin, the uncompromising commitment to peace and security upheld by Begin, Shamir, and now Netanyahu came to win the hearts of the Israeli people.The Literature of Conversion

Few outsiders to religion understand that conversion changes a person’s reading habits: Rilke gives way to Ratzinger, or Hemingway to the Hafetz Hayim.