Historical Reflections

I first met Natan Sharansky in the early 1990s, when he was president of the newly formed Zionist Forum, the umbrella organization representing former Soviet Jewish activists. At the time, he also served as an associate editor of  The Jerusalem Report , where he wrote...

We know practically nothing about her. What we do know comes from a single document written in 1947. From a family that included impressive Torah scholars, she was highly influenced by a man born and baptized a Catholic, raised for the priesthood, yet spent all his...

This chapter is an excerpt from Memorie d’un cronista d’assalto (“Memories of a Crusading Journalist”) Milan, Italy: l’Ornitorinco Editori, (2016) by John Cappelli (Translation by Vanni Cappelli) Image of an old photo taken in 1966 at the Manhattan apartment of United...