American Civil War

Why is Thanksgiving a holiday of celebration for American Jews? - opinion

American Jews have celebrated Thanksgiving, acknowledging the gift of freedom of religion and a secure and safe home. 

 Thanksgiving
 The White House is seen from the top of the Washington Monument April 3, 2003.

US faces greatest peril since Civil War as Republicans scheme to retain power - opinion

 THE STATE of Pennsylvania Monument on the Gettysburg battlefield.

The US's convulsive period of reckoning echoes the civil war - opinion

 An 1877 cartoon from the satirical newspaper Puck illustrates the antisemitic practices of the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga, New York. The cartoon compares the corrupt gentile clients favored by the hotel, center, with respectable (albeit stereotypical) Jewish figures, including Jesus.

The antisemitic history of the Union Army and the US civil war - opinion


Voices from the Arab press: President Joe Biden’s visit and the Arab world

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

 THE SECOND reign of Faisal bin Turki Al Saud overlapped with the period in which Abraham Lincoln headed the US.

Jews of the South - In the Land of Firsts

In spite of the terror and repression of the Old South, Jews managed to survive and even thrive in the Land of Firsts.

Southern Jews wearing the Confederate gray

Explore only Jewish military cemetery in world outside of Israel

An iron fence with rifles as posts and crossed swords and sabers as railings surround an area of five rows that each hold six fallen Jewish Confederate soldiers.

Battle of Spottsylvania by Thure de Thulstrup

Trump is a wannabe dictator. What if he won't go? - opinion

Trump has dictatorial tendencies and occasionally acts on them.

U.S. President Donald Trump pauses as he addresses his first re-election campaign rally in several months in the midst of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S., June 20, 2020.

The US is re-fighting its Civil War narrative - analysis

Officers under Gen. Lee are seen today as ‘traitors’ and ‘white supremacists,’ part of an unfolding narrative in the US that sees the current police brutality and racism as linked to the Civil War.

A sign reading "Hate Has No Home Here" hangs by the statue of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee, ahead of the one year anniversary of 2017 Charlottesville "Unite the Right" protests, in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., August 10, 2018

New whiskey honors slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey

Nathan Green may have helped perfect the Lincoln County Process.

Nearest Green's son, George Green, seated next to Jack Daniel.

The Jewish Confederates

On July 3, the United States will mark the 156th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a decisive engagement in the American Civil War.

Lt. Octavus Cohen of the 32nd Georgia Regiment, wearing the Confederate gray uniform