I grew up in Brooklyn as a much-traumatised, post-Holocaust child of survivors and gravitated to Beitar, the right-wing movement of Ze’ev Jabotinsky and Menachem Begin which I joined when I was 13. At ...

In the late 1970s Menachem Begin, whose conservative coalition depended on religious parties, extended the perk to anyone at all who happened to be in a seminary – almost always Haredim. Because of ...

Mendelssohn’s resistance to social prejudice against Jews, even when it came from within the liberal enlightenment, speaks to us today.