On November 4, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln penned a brief letter on official letterhead (“Executive Mansion, Washington”) to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. “I believe

Today, many historic threats have diminished or disappeared. There is no Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini to threaten European Jewry. There is no government or society seeking to annihilate…

Once upon a time, Jews lived in the medieval hilltop village of Ayllón, 90 miles north of Madrid. Expelled from Spain in 1492, there was

Visitors to Brighton & Hove might be surprised to see the name of a 19th-century Jewish police chief emblazoned across the front of a city