US President Donald Trump’sclaim that the US will take over the Gaza Strip garnered mixed reactions from the 34 Jewish members of the House of Representatives and the Senate. They ranged from praise to condemnation at the end of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s whirlwind week through Washin...
Cutler, a lifelong Chicagoan, professor emeritus of geography at Chicago State University, historian and leader of historic tours in the city, quickly found an audience for the book. The Geographic Society of Chicago distributed it to its 1,000- plus members to commemorate the organization's 75t...
For over 100 years, the Vilna Shul has stood nestledin Boston’s Beacon Hill — an outpost of Jewish immigrant history in one of the city’s most popular, most historic neighborhoods. While rooted in its Jewish cultural history, it’s also a building that has known change. Starting in t...
After resigning from the US Senate when Louisiana seceded from the Union, Benjamin became president Jefferson Davis’s closest adviser in the Confederate States of America. Interestingly, as it became clear that the Confederacy was losing the war, Benjamin recommended offering to emancipate slaves if...
Article 1, Section 3 of the Constitution gives the Senate “the sole Power to try all Impeachments” and requires a vote by two-thirds of the members present to convict. At this writing, what comes next is uncertain. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will send the article of impeachment to the ...
A limited number of copies was printed and distributed among the members of the royal family, ministers, heads of departments, and members of the Senate. Although this paper was proved afterward to be a plagiarism of a treatise published in 1740 by a demented priest, Gaudent, still the ...
The question becomes very significant, because at a certain point, especially during the time of the second Temple, there were many official members of the priesthood no longer taking seriously the rites and duties, originally commanded to Aaron and his sons. The Talmudic book of Yoma describes ...
Besides engaging in commerce, the Jews conducted loan-banks; and in the ancient decrees of the Senate in regard to them it is repeatedly declared that the operation of these banks, which was prohibited by the canonical law, was the chief reason for admitting Jews into Venice. Therefore, in...
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The Cornell University student accused of posting online threats to kill members of the university’s Jewish community appeared in federal court Wednesday and was ordered to remain behind bars for the time being.