Late last year our knowledge and interest in the First World War was re-kindled, for it was a hundred years ago that the ‘Great War’ came to an end on 11 November 1918.
The background of that Great War and its consequences are the two ‘book-ends’ of this classic historical account. …
A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin Read More »
For many years in public lectures brethren have quoted this prescient passage from Elpis Israel: “There is, then, a partial and primary restoration of Jews before the manifestation [of Messiah], which is to serve as the nucleus, or basis, of future operations in the restoration of the rest of the …
Israel and the Eastern Tarshish Read More »
Sometimes we visualise history as it is presented in many textbooks: a single, straight timeline marked by various significant events. In reality, the course of human history more closely resembles raindrops on a windowpane: a complex web of individual streams attracting and reacting against each ot…
