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The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his ...

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Put in the simplest of terms, patriotism is love of one's country and its ideals.

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A nother mentor Sarna cites is Jacob Rader Marcus, the rabbi and historian who founded the American Jewish Archives at the ...

Writing these columns, at the risk of repeating myself, is at times a major struggle. There are times where just getting started feels like it just ain’t gonna happen at all. I look at the monitor ...

Some of you may have noticed the weather of late has been entirely too prominent. Colorful mega heat waves, tornados, hail stones the size of muskrats. Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ...