Sepharad ’92 by Chaim Raphael One of the more agreeable events in modern Jewish history is due to unfold on March 31 of this year…
A (Jewish) Double Helix by Chaim Raphael It is notoriously difficult to frame a satisfactory definition of what it means to be a Jew. But if the…
Pagans, Christians, Jews by Chaim Raphael When, as a schoolboy in England many years ago, I learned of the statement by W.R. Inge, Dean of St.…
The Manchester Connection by Chaim Raphael How does one understand the result of the influx of Sephardim into Israel, which split the population into what seemed…
The Phenomenal Life of Sir Moses Montefiore by Chaim Raphael Anyone famous who lives to be a hundred acquires an extra bonus of esteem; and this was the experience of…
An Ambassador Speaks Out, by Shlomo Argov by Chaim Raphael When Shlomo Argov became Israel's ambassador in London in September 1979 he brought with him, as part of his "credentials,"…
Cecil Roth: Historian without Tears, by Irene Roth by Chaim Raphael As England is the land of eccentrics, it is wholly in character that the outstanding historian Cecil Roth, who adored…
Jewish History and the Sephardim by Chaim Raphael A new political situation has surfaced in Israel in recent years with the rise of the Sephardim-a term referring to…
How to Read the Bible by Chaim Raphael In encountering a new translation of the Bible, one often thinks first of the changes one can expect to find…
Acts of Faith, by Dan Ross by Chaim Raphael Everyone knows the story of the pigtailed Chinese Jew who greets his Litvak visitor in total disbelief: "You Jewish? You…
Jewish People, Jewish Thought, by Robert M. Seltzer by Chaim Raphael In the days when the Jewish world was socially cohesive and bound in religious observance, no one had much need…