As if everything we were desperate to be rescued from has become a nostalgic ideal, while life under Jewish sovereignty is akin to that under the Cossacks. It’s all there in Sefer Bereishit.
During the massacre of Jews by Cossacks in the 1648-1657 Khmelnitsky pogroms, in what is now Ukraine, a series of bloodthirsty assaults on peaceful Jewish communities were initiated by Ukrainian ...
If you grew up Jewish, at least in my generation, in my house, you grew up with stories of my grandmother, in Yiddish called Bubbe, my grandmother, who the Cossacks, when they attacked her ghetto ...
The ally of the Cossacks, the Tartars ... Their leadership rejected Jewish schools for those operated by the state. American values and tradition became their new religion, and universities ...
“This seems to be a Jewish parable that doesn’t want to ... The cats represent a universal force of oppression — Cossacks in Russia or capitalists in America — while the mice encompass ...
The ceasefire is a terrific deal: Innocents released. Families reunited. Hope ignited. Evil, to an extent, defeated. National solidarity, and Jewish solidarity, reinvigorated. A terrific deal.
Walking through the remnants of Be’eri, one sees images of Poland or Ukraine—Cossacks or Nazi collaborators on a rampage through a defenseless Jewish village. I’m not being rhetorical when I ...
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s Jewish community is mourning after Isak Haleva, chief rabbi since 2002, died at 84 on Tuesday. Haleva was the 35th person to hold the title of Hahambaşi, by which the ...
An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, has struck a chord as Kyiv battles to assert its identity. By Constant ...
The word covenant means agreement, such as a contract between two people. Many Jews see their relationship with God as a covenant, or an agreement. The belief is that God asks them to do certain ...
If my math is right, $50 million would buy more than 2,400 condoms for each and every male in Gaza between the ages of 15 and 64. That would allow the use of a condom every day, for almost seven ...