history

14/10/2018 - 14:19

The Byzantine-era synagogue and adjoining spring at Ein Keshatot, known in Arabic as Umm el-Kanatir(the Mother of Arches) – one of the... →

13/09/2018 - 13:17

On a hastily built stage before the busy horse market of Strasbourg, scores of people dance to pipes, drums, and horns. The July sun beats... →

17/08/2018 - 11:50

It spans over 350 years, beginning when New York was a Dutch colony named New Amsterdam and extends through American independence and the... →

07/08/2018 - 13:25

Every once in a while in history, cause and effect smack us in the face. The conditions under which the czars forced Russians to live gave... →

04/07/2018 - 13:02

More than anything, Custine was overwhelmed by the artificiality of imperial Russia. “The Russians have everything in name, and nothing in... →

19/05/2018 - 15:36

Professor Pipes, who spent his entire academic career at Harvard, took his place in the front rank of Russian historians with the... →

21/04/2018 - 18:28

On Thursday, the Polish government and Jewish communities around the world will mark the anniversary of the uprising, which went down in... →

01/04/2018 - 16:43

Bruno said the universe has no center, and stars are suns, surrounded by planets and moons. Remarkably, he thus outlined large-scale... →

18/03/2018 - 14:02

A reasonable remark at the time, of course, but history has proved the oracle wrong. “Charlie don’t surf!” said Lt Col Kilgore in... →

16/03/2018 - 13:57

Even ancient classical texts, students have argued, can be dangerous: at Columbia University in New York, student activists demanded that a... →

13/03/2018 - 13:18

Visitors are taught about the connection between astronomy and Judaism, rabbinical figures who studied lunar activity and the various... →

11/03/2018 - 14:36

"I feel this is a very important moment, a historic moment," said Tamar Alexander-Frizer, president of the Autoridad Nasionala del Ladino i... →

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