Our Mission

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 Jennifer Klau is the Executive Director of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford. Before embracing her inner history nerd, Jennifer worked in the healthcare sciences realm as Director of Research for a healthcare startup, Adjunct Professor at Central Connecticut State University and as a Master Instructor for the SpinningTM program, training instructors and creating and presenting continuing education courses.

Klau has served as the President of Beth David Synagogue in West Hartford, CT twice, heads several committees and continues to serve on its board. Jennifer is a competitive rower with Riverfront Recapture in Hartford and spends as much of the winter as she can skiing. She earned her B.S. in Communications from Boston University College of Communication and her M.A. in Education and Ph.D. in Kinesiology at UCONN. Jennifer is married to Superior Court Judge Daniel Klau, with whom she raised three children.

   Richard Landes was trained as a medievalist and taught history at University of Pittsburgh and Boston University. His early work focused on the period around 1000 CE, a moment, in his opinion, of both cultural mutation (origins of the modern West), and intense apocalyptic and millennial expectations. After 2000 and the onset of Global Jihad, he focused on apocalyptic millennial activity in the 21st century and the Western news media’s unconscious role in encouraging such trends. In 2005 he launched a media-oversight project called The Second Draft in order to look at what the news media calls their “first draft of history.” His opening dossier was Pallywood and the Muhammad al Durah Affair and its disastrous consequences; all of the material is available at the Al Durah Project. Since January 2005 he has been blogging at The Augean Stables. 

His most recent publications on those topics include Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience (Oxford U. Press, 2011), and The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred-Year Retrospective on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (NYU Press, 2011), Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate-Speech at Connecticut College (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019). In 2022 he published his analysis of the calamitous turn of events among the Western intelligentsia around 2000 (response to the Al Aqsa Intifada and 9-11) and its impact on the ability of democracies to defend themselves: Can the Whole World be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad.As one reviewer put it: “The Book that saw October 7 coming a mile away.”