Whoever we are and whatever we do in life, we are all being asked, many times over the years, to choose our race from a given list. It may be…

Many people are unaware of the fact that Jewish immigrants were part of the great agricultural expansion which took place in the United States from 1800 to 1900 and beyond.…

This non-Jew saved 200 Jewish POW during WWII Many accounts of bravery have emerged among the many thousands of American prisoners of war during World War II in the Pacific…

The 1800s German Jew introduced a liquid-fuel breakthrough It sure is amazing. I just saw a TV report showing a self-driving car safely navigating the streets and eventually parking itself.…

You have heard of the Black Ethiopian Jews, many now living in Israel, but do you know of the Lemba people of Zimbabwe, South Africa, Malawi and Mozambique? The Lemba…

Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe, as well as in the United States. Whether we are Jewish or not, we should recall the horrors of the Holocaust, which began…

Bulgaria’s church and government stood against Hitler My wife and I recently returned from a river trip down the Danube from Budapest, Hungary, to Bucharest, Bulgaria. The most historical center…

By Jerry Kasten Every summer, children splash the pools trying to evade capture in a game called “Marco Polo.” The game is simple: A blinded tagger roams the pool shouting,…

One of the world’s greatest horrors unleashed on mankind, the mass extermination plan against Jews and others deemed inferior by the Nazis under Adolf Hitler, is known as “the Holocaust,”…

One of my amusing former teaching experiences occurred when a student in my American History class asked me a question just as I began passing out the weekly 20-question, multiple-choice…