Robert Rockaway

The government’s most successful Prohibition agents were two overweight Jewish guys from New York, who arrested 4,932 people and regularly wore fake mustaches

How the French buccaneer king and other descendants of Spain’s hidden Jews took to the high seas and revenged themselves upon the kingdom that tormented their ancestors

The Jewish Tin Pan Alley composer who wrote ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ had never been to a ballgame

Not to be confused with the Knights Templar of medieval fame, they settled in Palestine and invented the Jaffa orange brand, before becoming enthusiastic Nazis

Remembering and honoring the courageous, often deadly, fight to defy and defeat National Socialism

After World War II, some Jews searched for Nazis and Germans and killed them

On Israel Independence Day, reflecting on more than 20 years of living on a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean

In 1935, Father Charles Coughlin and other anti-Semites and white supremacists reached a peak of popularity in America. At the same time, the Motor City’s sports teams excelled. What’s not to be proud of?

A former Israeli spy describes his life and work in the 1960s and ’70s

Jewish athletes have won more Olympic medals for fencing than for any other sport

Campus Week: A memoir of discomfort—and progress—as a graduate student at the University of Michigan in the 1960s

How the Jewish mob fought American admirers of the Third Reich

Letters to and from the early-20th-century immigration service that sent thousands of Jews to America’s heartland

Yom Ha’atzmaut: How Jewish mobsters helped Israel gain its independence

Private letters to foreign relatives paint a harrowing picture of warnings largely unheeded