i just watched an interesting History Channel documentary authenticating the SECOND and LOST book of Hitler. An interesting point raised in the documentary – a well established one, from Hitler’s own words – is that in terms of his racial theories, Hitler did not so much …
In his letter to rabbi Yosef ben Ha’Rav Yehudah, Maimonides explained his belief that in the future “all of Israel will subsist on it alone” in reference to his Mishneh Torah, over even the Talmud, as the Jewish people “will ABANDON ALL ELSE BESIDES IT …
In Adebayo Oyebade’s “The Study of Africa in Historical Perspective” the author informs us of the history of Eurocentric presumptions of Africa’s lack of history and thus, lack of civilization (7). Oyebade emphasizes, however, that history in many parts of Africa was primarily preserved by …
In Curtis Keim’s article “Changing Our Mind About Africa” the author explores pervasive Western – specifically European and American – myths and stereotypes in popular culture and collective consciousness. Most Americans know very little about Africa and what we do know is largely fed by …
The Lubavitcher Rebbe writes: The date for this letter was not available By the Grace of G-d … In reply to your question as to what should be the Jewish attitude towards the matter of “religious dialogue” which has been advocated in certain Jewish and …
“The naturalized [member of the Jewish nation] who naturalizes (הַגֵּר הַגָּר) with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as gerim in the land of Egypt. I am Ha’Shem Eloheikhem.” (Leviticus/Vayiqra 19.34) The …
The entire history of the development of Anti-Jewish propaganda in Ithnā’ `Ashariyyah Shī`īsm is too long a history to recount here. It will suffice, however, to jump forward a few centuries to the Allāhdad massacre of 1839 in Iran. The dismal picture of the severe …
In Jonathan Isacoff’s “Writing the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Historical Bias and the Use of History in Political Science,” we read that the job of the political scientist is not firstly to look for “facts,” but to identify the competing schools of thought. The aim is not …
For over two decades the name Benny Morris has been synonymous with the New Historiography in Israeli Academia. Having not shied away from this designation or many of the positions associated with it, this New Historian has in recent years magnetized towards the pole (and …
Joseph, the son of Israel, was described in a Midrash (Genesis Rabah 86;3), as looking like a GERMANI (i.e. like someone from the North, very white, fair, according to Maimonides) and in another passage (Talmud Sota 36) as having a face that was “pink like …