Shmuel Klatzkin
The 1930s were a public health disaster. It is true that in that troubled decade, death from infectious disease was…
Here’s a story from Ukraine from over 200 years ago. It was the eve of the Passover holiday, and for…
On April 5, President Trump issued a proclamation designating that day as Education Day, and calling to mind the life…
England in the 1640s was shaking apart along many fault lines. The royalists, known as the Cavaliers, fought with King…
In The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton devotes many consecutive articles to addressing the faults of the Articles of Confederation. Occasionally writing…
The plague has brought in some fresh air. For a number of years, I have led a small, devoted group…
I remember in rabbinic school one of the teachers, an acerbic and witty philosophy professor, dead-panned to the class, “I…
There are great events that test our civilization. In their stress, we see more clearly that in normal times the…
A deadly terror gripped more and more of the world, leaving death and dislocation in its wake. Even so, many…
