August 2023

August 25, 2023 Ostia: Home to one of the greatest centers of post-Temple Jewry – opinion By Barbara Sofer A quiz from a recent edition of the Lubavitch movement’s premier publication Lubavitch International: After the destruction of the Second Temple, Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai famously established the new Jewish center in the Yeshiva (Academy) of Yavne. At […]

August 11, 2023 ‘Oppenheimer’: How Jewish refugees beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb – opinion By Barbara Sofer Many Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany would work on the Manhattan Project. They knew how important it was to beat Hitler to getting nuclear bombs first. An intelligent and sensitive friend asked me recently if