By William W. Hallo, Yale University —- Tikva Frymer was a student at Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America when the late Moshe Held, one of the luminaries…

By Sharona and Joshua Barzilay, David B. Ruderman —- Isaac Eisenstein-Barzilay was born in 1915 in the town of Vilkovishk (Vilkaviskis) in Lithuania where his mother was born and raised….

Our colleague Arthur Hertzberg died at the age of 84 on April 17, 2006. A scholar of modern Jewish history and thought, he was the premier Jewish public intellectual/activist in…