Jewish History

Jewish women in the Diaspora.

Jewish History from the beginning through the Babylonian exile.

The Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes on law.

In the Second Temple period.

The evolving relationship between the rabbinic sages and the Jews on the street.

A topic that may seem far from modern children's lives holds valuable social lessons.

The Sabbaths before and after Tisha B'Av provide a message of comfort and consolation.

Go with Gilgamesh, but lose the animal livers.

The remarkable parallels in the stories of Josephus' and Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai's surrenders to the Romans reveal more about Jewish memory than Jewish history.

Philo worked to reconcile Hellenism and the Hebrew Scriptures.

How amoraic study sessions became the Gemaras.

The emergence of amoraic schools of study.