New York
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On February 26, 1993, terrorists parked a rental van in a garage underneath the World Trade Center’s twin towers and lit the fuses on a massive homemade bomb stuffed inside. Six people died and more than 1,000 were injured in the subsequent explosion, which carved out a crater several stories deep and propelled smoke into…
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AFC Ajax is one of the most well-known football clubs in Europe, if not the world. In addition to dozens of national trophies, it has also won 12 international trophies, a feat repeated by only a few other clubs. Historically, Ajax was popularly seen as having “Jewish roots.” Although not an official Jewish club like…
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Ruth Westheimer (born 4 June 1928), better known as Dr Ruth, is an American sex therapist, media personality, and author. The New York Times described her as a “Sorbonne-trained psychologist who became a kind of cultural icon in the 1980s.… She ushered in the new age of freer—franker talk about sex on radio and television—and…
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Many people think that terrorism is a relatively new phenomenon which really only started in the late 1960’s But nothing could be further from the truth. Scholars dispute whether the roots of terrorism date back to the 1st century and the Sicarii Zealots, to the 11th century and the Al-Hashshashin, to the 19th century and the…
History of Sorts 
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