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Featured / Pulse of Israel

The Only Indigenous People

By Avi Abelow

It's time to shed light on a politically incorrect truth that has been swept under the rug for far too long: Jews are indigenous to the Land of Israel and are, in fact, the ONLY people indigenous to the land.

Headline / History / Jerusalem / Archaeology

Newly Discovered Documents of Yemenite Olim Testify to Jewish life in Jerusalem’s Kfar HaShiloach

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Original documents belonging to Yemenite Olim from the 1880s who lived in Kfar HaShiloach were recently discovered and brought to light.

Israel / History / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

National Library of Israel Releases Photos from Johnny Cash’s ‘Holy Land’ Visit

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

As opposed to his two previous trips to Israel, the one in 1971 was accompanied by more fanfare, including a lavish reception in Jerusalem.

Photo of the Day

Unique Collection of 130,000 ‘Tweets’ from 19th Century Jerusalem Given to Hebrew U

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The postcard collection documents Israel’s history, from the Ottoman Period and British Mandate to the early Pioneers, from the Six-Day War through the early 21st Century.

The Jay Shapiro Show

Middle East History - The Jay Shapiro Show

By Israel News Talk Radio

A short review of the interface between the Moslem world and the West since 1798.

Video of the Day

Gershon Bar Kochba on Jewish Heroism in Those Days and Now

By Video of the Day

How did a small group of Maccabees defeat the huge Seleucid Greeks army?

Featured / The Muqata

Barnes & Noble is Selling Assaf Voll's Palestinian History Book

By JoeSettler

Amazon pulled the best-selling book on the history of the Palestinian people.

Featured / Book Reviews / The Muqata

A History of the Palestinian People - From Ancient Times to the Modern Era

By JoeSettler

Assaf A. Voll has written one of the most comprehensive books on the history of the Palestinian People.

Glimpses Into American Jewish History

Early History Of Jews In Chicago

By Dr. Yitzchok Levine

In 1845 the first Jewish organization in Chicago was established under the name of the Jewish Burial Ground Society.

IDF & Security / Jewish / Politics / Global / Government / History / News Briefs / Media

Rivlin Stresses Need for Solidarity with Arabs at Conference Celebrating Crucial Dates in Zionist History

By JNi.Media

Rivlin urged a resolution for regulating illegal construction in the Arab sector, where 'each hesitation distances us further from the solution, and has the ability to increase the divisions, and the violence.'

Op-Eds

Tim Kaine Needs A History Lesson

By Stephen M. Flatow

There’s a reason the “two state” proposal attracted the support of so few sitting US presidents: it’s a bad idea. A Palestinian state would pose a lethal danger to Israel and destabilize the region

Op-Eds

Obama’s UN Legacy: Whitewashing Iran’s Nuclear Cheating; Outlawing Jewish History

By David Gerstman

This year, the UN was bookmarked by startling resolutions orchestrated by Pres. Obama: the Iran Nuclear Deal in Jan., and in Dec. Jewish presence declared illegal in areas integral to Jewish history.

Midrash Stories

The History Of Chanukah (continued from last week)

By Rabbi Sholom Klass

Mattisyahu knew that Antiochus would be enraged when he heard what had happened, so he and his sons fled to the Judean Hills.

Front Page / From the Paper

Chanukah Cards And Jewish History

By Saul Jay Singer

Behind each is a tale of time and place that, framed against various religious, political, social, cultural, and artistic milieus, can provide deep insight into Jewish historical leitmotifs.

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance: Parshat Vayeshev: The Rhymes and Rhythms of Biblical History

By Rabbi Francis Nataf

How could Ya’akov make the same 'mistake' as his father, to favor one child over another after all the troubles that plagued him resulting from Yitzchak favoring Esav?

Moshe Feiglin

The Biggest White Elephant In History

By Moshe Feiglin

If Israel didn’t receive American aid, would it buy U.S. F-35 jets? Should it? This deal has given us an air force on a leash.

Interviews and Profiles

The History Of A Miraculous Country: An Interview with Author Daniel Gordis

By Elliot Resnick

People who start the history in 1948 encounter a country that is fundamentally in conflict and are not exposed at all to the yearnings of the Jewish people to restore themselves to their ancestral homeland.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Palestinian Authority / Media / Anti-Israel NGOs / Judea & Samaria / On Campus / Education / Judaism

Breaking the Silence: Teaching Hebron's Real Jewish History to Young Israelis

By JNi.Media

If students on the tour encounter foreign journalists, European MPs, or anti-Israel propaganda tours led by radical Left NGOs, they will be permitted to educate them, politely, about the hypocrisy of the delegitimization campaign against Israel.

Features On The Jewish World

Fiddlers On The Loose: A Short History Of Klezmer

By Libi Astaire

One thing klezmer instruments usually had in common was their portability.

Features On The Jewish World

History Of Jews In Golders Green

By Murray Lee

The Jews who landed at London’s port, located at the eastern end of the city, did not have the wherewithal to go far, and settled in what it still known as the East End, like what happened in the Lower East Side of New York.

Analysis

A History of ‘Evenhanded’ Failure

By Evelyn Gordon

On September 25, King Hussein took the extraordinary step of meeting with Israel’s prime minister, despite the countries’ lack of formal diplomatic ties, to warn that Syria and Egypt would soon attack

IDF & Security / History / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Kedumim's Early Pioneers Celebrate 40 Years in Samaria

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

When the first pioneers came to Kedumim 40 years ago, there was nothing. "The conditions were very hard," they said... but they came because it was "the land of our forefathers."

Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / United Nations (UN) / Settlements

Netanyahu Responds to UN Special Envoy’s Statement on the "Illegality" of Settlements

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Netanyahu said, "The UN envoy to the Middle East’s remarks to the Security Council distort history and international law and drive peace even further away."

Op-Eds

Why Is The Most Corrupt Candidate In History Winning Big?

By Ben Shapiro

How in the world is this prevaricating potential-presidential possibly prevailing?

Video of the Day

Welcome to Israel with Ezri Tubi

By Video of the Day

Ezri Tubi give a tour of Israel's historical roots.

News Briefs / Judea & Samaria

Israelis and Arabs: “Etzion Bloc Should Be Center of Peace, Not War”

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Arabs and Israelis met on Tuesday evening at the library of the Etzion-bloc community of Efrat to learn about the history of Jewish-Arab relations in the region.

Analysis

Abbas Sues History. Not a Parody.

By Jonathan S. Tobin

Lawfare at its most litigious: Abbas and the Palestinian Authority have determined the best way to aid their people is to sue Britain over the 1917 Balfour Declaration.

Parsha

Through The Eyes Of History

By Jewish Press Staff

How is it possible that anyone could see Pinchas as anything other than a hero?

Elder of Ziyon

UNESCO has a Curious Definition of "History"

By Elder of Ziyon

The word "historic" to refer to pre-1967 could easily be used to claim that any Jewish presence in the Old City is a violation of the 1948-1967 status when Jordan ensured the Old City was Jew-free

Felafel on Rye

History Repeats Itself

By Tzvi Fishman

I love the Jewish People. That’s why I write what I write. History repeats itself. What happened in Spain and Germany will, in one way or another, transpire in America, France, and England, too

Op-Eds

Is the Israeli Government Empowering Islam’s Disregard for History?

By David Mark

The real question for the Israeli government is what cost do we incur letting the Muslim Waqf radically change our holiest site-the Temple Mount-in exchange for some 'quiet.'

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: Her Future is My History

By Guest Author

I want to be Israeli because I want my children to be Israeli. I want them to be Israeli so that they don't feel like they have to hide, or live in a cloistered ghetto. I want them to be full and free

Politics / Government / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Jerusalem / United Nations (UN)

UN Mid-East Envoy Not Thrilled with Netanyahu's Free History Lesson Offer

By JNi.Media

Mladenov appeared deeply offended by the PM's suggestion that his staff were uneducated.

Op-Eds

The Paranoid View Of History Infects Oberlin

By Richard L. Cravatts

It has never been the function of academic free speech to protect or promote irresponsible, inaccurate, or deranged speech-yet anti-Semitic speech of this kind apparently is

News Briefs / Holidays & Observances / Archaeology

Eight Is Not Enough: History of the Ancient Candles in Israel

By JNi.Media

The Hanukkah commandment is to light the candles at the front door, or in a window overlooking the street, so they may be seen by passersby, as an announcement of the miracle.

US / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Jerusalem / Archaeology

Jewish Money in the Civil War to be Shown in Jerusalem

By Jewish Press Staff

Two rare 150-year-old tokens issued by a kosher restaurant from the U.S. civil war period are to be shown this week in Jerusalem.

David Bedein's Behind the News in Israel

Book Review: Simon Sebag Montefiore’s 'Jerusalem: The Biography'

By David Bedein

This blithely written book presents Jerusalem as the home of all monotheistic faiths, disregarding the unique bond between Jews and their ancient capital.

Sultan Knish

Goodbye Columbus, Goodbye America

By Daniel Greenfield

In California, Columbus Day became Indigenous People's Day, which sounds like a Marxist terrorist group's holiday.

Israel / Holocaust

Holocaust Researcher Yisrael Gutman Dies at 90 in Jerusalem

By Jewish Press News Desk

Warsaw Ghetto survivor and researcher Israel Gutman has died in Jerusalem at the age of 90. He was born in Warsaw, where he was wounded in the Jewish uprising against the Nazis in 1943. He is survived by two daughters and three grandchildren. Gutman survived three concentration and death camps, including Auschwitz, but his parents […]

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

The Almighty’s Supreme Call to Man

By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l

Could we understand the history of Israel without its prehistory, the stories of Abraham and Sarah and their children?

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

A Sense of History

By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l

The ancients saw the gods in nature, never more so than in thinking about the harvest and all that accompanied it.

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs / Religion / Archaeology

Oldest Alphabetical Written Text Found near Temple Mount

By Jewish Press Staff

The oldest known Hebrew writing from ancient Jerusalem dates back to the 8th century. Archaeologists now have found an older alphabetical text, not in Hebrew, from the time of Kings David or Solomon

Israel / Middle East / Levant / Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

The Saga of Ancient 'Palestinian Susiya' – The Town That Never Was

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Palestinian Authority is a master at inventing history. Arabs claim they have been there long before Jews although evidence proves the contrary. The tactic is conquering the southern Hevron Hills.

Jewish / News Briefs / Jerusalem / Archaeology

Archaeologists Find 2,000-Year-Old Evidence of Siege in Jerusalem

By Jewish Press Staff

History records the siege of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, but archaeologists never have found evidence of the famine that plagued Jews – until now.

Israel / News Briefs / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

‘Extinct’ Frog in Israel Becomes a Unique ‘Living Fossil’

By Jewish Press Staff

An ancient frog can now be added to Israel’s history. The “painted frog,” though to be extinct, turns out to be a descendant of a one million-old frog.

My Right Word

Who's Denying Whose Heritage?

By Yisrael Medad

The entire Land of Israel, have been the subject of incessant Islamic reinvention.

The Muqata

History of Israel: Snow in the Summer

By Orat@Muqata

Two people have reported snow in the late May-early June, though in both cases, it was hearsay.

Op-Eds

Opportunities and Risks Ahead for Turkey

By Alon Ben Meir

Now is the time for Ankara to take some corrective domestic and foreign policy measures consistent with what the country has and continues to aspire for but fails to realize.

Goldstein on Gelt

Capitalism and the Jews

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

An interview with Professor Jerry Z. Muller author of "Capitalism and the Jews."

Op-Eds

Obama and the Red Line

By Michael Curtis

With the Syrian government refusing to allow UN inspectors into the country it is difficult to see how indisputable proof of use of chemical weapons can be found

Fresno Zionism

Decentralized Jihad

By Vic Rosenthal

Anyone anyone who talks negatively about Islam is accused of bigotry and hatred on the level of the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazi party.

Op-Eds / Analysis

Islam's Jew-Hating Hadith in Context

By Andrew G. Bostom

The infamous hadith about the Jew hiding behind a tree is not some apocrophyl canon held in esteem by an unimportant few, but runs parallel to anti-Jewish motifs throughout the Koran.

Op-Eds

Moses' Gift: Natural Gas in the Mediterranean

By Peter Martino

The valuable Cypriot gas fields are located halfway between the Cypriot and Israeli coast.

A Soldier's Mother

Irena Sendler, We Honor You

By Paula R. Stern

Irena Sendler smuggled 2,500 children out of the ghetto.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Photoshopping Women Out of the Holocaust

By Harry Maryles

Digitally removing women from Holocaust photos dishonors those women and the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

Fresno Zionism

How Not to Remember the Holocaust

By Vic Rosenthal

The Jewish lesson of the Holocaust is this: Jew hatred is real, it is dangerous and it is not possible for Jews to depend on others to protect them.

Rubin Reports

With an Anti-Semitic Holland, Where Is It Safe for Jews?

By Barry Rubin

Even in the Dutch mass media there are shocking things written on a regular basis about Jews and Israel.

Shiloh Musings

Obama Visit 'Strangles' Israel

By Batya Medad

Now on the Eve of Passover we should be remembering that our salvation will come only from God, not the President of the United States.

Shiloh Musings

Searching for the Past at Tel Shiloh

By Batya Medad

Recently, archaeologists have been back to Tel Shiloh looking for ancient treasures which will show what life had been like in Biblical times when Jewish pilgrims came to Shiloh to pray.

Daniel Pipes / The Lion's Den

50 Years of Syrian Misery

By Daniel Pipes

Before the "8 March Revolution," Syria had been exceptionally unstable. Then came the heavy hand of the Ba'athists.

Rubin Reports

The 'Imperialist Tool' of the Middle East

By Barry Rubin

Historically, inasmuch as there was any European or American “imperialism” in the Middle East it made use of Arab political factors over Israel.

The Muqata

Purim of Yesteryear: Celebrations in TLV 1932-34 (Video)

By Jameel@Muqata

Footage of how Purim was celebrated in Israel in the 1930s.

The Muqata

Why Don't We Celebrate Two Days of Purim in Jerusalem?

By Orat@Muqata

Jews of 14th century Jerusalem celebrated Purim on both the 14th and 15th of Adar.

My Right Word

Is Sheikh Jarrah Actually the Biblical Town of Nob?

By Yisrael Medad

A Hebrew University professor suggests that the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheik Jarrah is actually the Biblical town of Nob, where David fled from Saul.

My Right Word

How Many Times Can They Say Israel Has Turned Right?

By Yisrael Medad

How many times can we be said to have turned right? And why are journalists surprised?

My Right Word

An Empire of Decline

By Yisrael Medad

The Ottoman Empire was in decline for most of its existence.

CIFWatch

Postcard from Israel: Tel Lachish

By Hadar Sela

The site of Tel Lachish shows evidence of human habitation in Israel spanning many different historic periods over thousands of years.

HADAR

The Non-Member Observer 'State' of Palestine

By Daniel Tauber

The entire concept of non-member observers has no bearing on international law.

US / News Briefs

Today in 1972 - Democratic Hopeful George McGovern Sends New Year's Wish to US Jews

By JTA

Sen. George McGovern, the Democratic Presidential candidate, greeted American Jews today on the occasion of the High Holy Days. "Mrs. McGovern joins me in wishing our Jewish friends and Jews around the world a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year," the South Dakotan said.

Jewish / NY / News Briefs

Today in 1934 - Brooklyn Jewish Women Help Refugees from Nazi Germany

By JTA

SEPTEMBER 5, 1934 - Mrs. Stephen S. Wise, president of the Women's Association of the American Jewish Congress, who has just returned from a visit to the German refugee centers in Europe, will be hostess this afternoon to 500 Brooklyn women who have pledged to support the establishment of a center in New York City for refugees from Nazi Germany.

Recipes

Dairy Free And The Nine Days

By Tamar Warga

The Nine Days are upon us once again. This historically sad period in Jewish history shouldn't be made worse by allergic emergencies. If you (or your child) suffer from milk allergies (or lactose intolerance), planning meals for the nine days can be a challenge.

Parsha / Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Two Sides Of The Same Coin

By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l

During The Three Weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha B’Av, as we recall the destruction of the Temples, we read three of the most searing passages in the prophetic literature, the first two from the opening of the book of Jeremiah, the third, next week, from the first chapter of Isaiah.

News Briefs

Polish Billionaire Donates 20 Million Zloty to Jewish Museum

By Jewish Press News Desk

Polish billionaire Jan Kulczyk's company Kulczyk Holding has donated zł.20 million, or close to $6 million, for the construction of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, reports Gazeta Wyborcza. The total cost of construction is expected to reach zł.320 million, or around $96 million, with the museum opening its doors in 2013. “Life […]

Analysis

Israelis Share Netanyahu’s View of History

By Vic Rosenthal

There is a reason that “the average Israeli” elected the son of Benzion Netanyahu, a man who shares his father’s values — because they too share his view of history. This is precisely why they believe that he would not sell out their interests.

The Muqata

The Rabbi Who Made Beit She'an Part of Israel

By Jameel@Muqata

The borders of Israel are today under dispute, but that was also true 700 years ago. When Estori Ha-Parchi (Ishtori Haparchi), a Spanish-French scholar, came to Israel around 1313, he was shocked to discover that some Jews did not consider places like Ramla and Beit She’an to be in Israel. Ramla was called 'Gat' by […]

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Jewish Press Radio: Tragedy in France, History of Gaza, Florida Victory

By Moshe Herman

Yishai's shares his recent experiences on IDF reserve duty, the tragic murders in France and how we can fight evil. Malkah starts anticipating Pesach, Yehuda HaKohen delves into the history of Gaza. Yishai interviews ZOA Florida Director, Joe Sabag on recent legislative victories. Finally traditional Jewish values meet high tech to provide First Aid in under two minutes.

Holidays

Rabbi Shimshon Nadel: My Essential Haggadot

By Rabbi Shimshon HaKohen Nadel

With thousands of Haggadot in print, it can be overwhelming to decide what to buy and what to use at the Seder. Just like kashering the home for Pesach requires preparation, so too the material for the Seder. And according to the investment is the return. Below are twenty of my favorite Haggadot.

Op-Eds

Why The West Is Ripe For Jihadists’ Plucking

By Bruce Thornton

The riots and violence in Afghanistan over some accidentally burned Korans followed a script that by now is all too drearily familiar.

Serials

Persuaded - Chapter V

By Barbara Bensoussan

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