Miriam appears in the Book of Exodus, which chronicles the time of Jewish slavery in Egypt. Her name means ‘bitter sea’. Miriam was the sister

The notion of a Messiah began with King David, and was developed in the books of Isaiah and Daniel. Very briefly, the Jewish concept of the

Of all the retail empires in Britain founded by Jews, none has endeared itself quite so much to the Anglo-Jewish community as Marks & Spencer.

Moses Maimonides is the English name for Moshe ben Maimon (‘Moses, son of Maimon’). In Hebrew he is called by the name Rambam (pronounced rum-bum)

No group has succeeded so dramatically in drawing lapsed or alienated Jews back into the orthodox fold as the Lubavitch Chassidim. Today the Lubavitch are

The Nazi Holocaust of 1939-45 wiped out a third of world Jewry; yet in many respects, the Assyrian conquest of the kingdom of northern Israel

Leah is a figure found in the Book of Genesis. She was the older sister of Rachel and the daughter of Laban, who was the

From a psychological perspective, the story of Joseph portrays the pitfalls of sibling rivalry. Yet there is a deeper message to the tale. Joseph was

Jezebel was the wife of King Ahab, who was said to be the most evil of all the kings of Israel before him. The story

At the turn of the last century, Jewish immigrants from Europe mixed in New York and Chicago with black immigrants from the Deep South. Soon

The third of the patriarchs, son of Isaac and father of the 12 tribes, Jacob was also the man who wrestled with God in a

Decision-makers in Jerusalem have always compensated for Israel’s numerical disadvantage vis a vis its enemies by creating an excellent intelligence service. Many individual spies have