Professor Jonathan Sarna recounts the relationship of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States, with the then still small and relatively uninfluential American Jewish community.

Dr. Gabriel Noah Brahm is probably best known for co-editing the comprehensive “The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel.”

Prof. Alon Confino discusses the Nazi desire to remove the Jews not only from the present and the future, but also from the past.

Dr. Stefan Ihrig explains how the rising Turkish nationalism in the wake of WWI served as valuable inspiration for the Nazis in the early Weimar years and beyond.

Dr. Yael Wilfand recently had her book “Poverty, Charity and the Image of the Poor in Rabbinic Texts from the Land of Israel” published.

Jonathan Preminger has just completed his PhD in labor struggles and representation in post-corporatist Israel.

Dr. Michal Segal Arnold wrote her PhD thesis about the American Indian Movement, a Native American pressure group.

While a glance at the current Israeli government might refute any notion that Jews are “smarter” than other groups, is there something in it?

“Children of the junction” are teenage boys from the West Bank who slip into Israel to work as peddlers.