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Jewish History

Am Yisrael Chai

It’s All About Us

By Shmuel Sackett

129 countries voted against the Jewish people... who do we blame?

"Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / North African States

Jewish, Pro-Israel Groups React to Morocco Agreeing to Normalize Ties with Israel

By Jackson Richman / JNS

Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, said “instead of a cold détente attained via surrender to unreasonable demands, these new agreements promote peace based upon common security needs and mutual medical, technological and financial benefits.”

Palestinian Authority

PA Inaugurates ‘Heritage Site’ at Israel’s Ancient Capital in Samaria

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Tel Aroma, a Hasmonean-era fortress, Biblical Samaria, and the altar of Yehoshua Bin Nun on Har Ebal near Shechem (Nablus) are some of these sites being taken over and converted by the PA into “Palestinian heritage sites.”

Government / United Nations (UN) / Poland / Holocaust

UN Ambassadors Visit Poland, Israel in Holocaust Education Program

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

In Israel, they will have an extensive tour of the nation to learn about the land, Jewish history and Zionism.

Featured / Ari Fuld's Sword of Israel

KRISTALLNACHT ‘The Night of Broken Glass’

By Ari Fuld HY"D

I remember growing up and wondering why my grandmother would jump and go pale every-time a glass broke in the house.

Video of the Day

Rabbi Sacks Speaks About Antisemitism in Britain's House of Lords

By Video of the Day

""My Lords, it pains me to speak about antisemitism, the world’s oldest hatred. But I cannot keep silent." Here is my speech from today's debate in the House of Lords about #antisemitism in Britain."

Featured / History / Antisemitism / Diaspora / Germany / Archaeology / Holocaust

Cologne Building Museum in Historic Jewish Quarter to Fight Anti-Semitism

By JNi.Media

Over its history, the Jewish community of Cologne has suffered persecutions, many expulsions, massacres and destruction.

The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer

The Jewish Story: Rumors of War

By The Land of Israel

The world is starting to shake with the rumbles of the the coming world war, destruction is to come and will sweep away much of the old, which will open new horizons for the budding Zionist project. Learn more Jewish history with Rabbi Mike Feuer today on The Jewish Story.

The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer

The Jewish Story: The Religion of Labor

By The Land of Israel

Cosmopolitanism vs. nationalism, socialism vs. capitalism - the end of the 19th century was a time of dramatic ideological struggle. Learn more about early Zionism with Rabbi Mike Feurer on The Jewish Story.

The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer

The Jewish Story: The New Jew

By The Land of Israel

Did you ever wonder how the Jews when from being the martyrs of Europe to the military power of the Middle East in less than fifty years? Learn more with Rav Mike Feuer today on The Jewish Story.

The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer

The Jewish Story: The Awakening

By The Land of Israel

In the late 19th century the dream of returning to the land of Israel began to become a reality. It took one man to transform the rebirth from a desire to an international issue. Learn about the early life of Theodore Herzl with Rabbi Mike Feuer today on The Jewish Story.

The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer

The Jewish Story: Seventy Faces of the Nation

By The Land of Israel

In honor of the State of Israel's 70th birthday, Rav Mike gives an overview of the meaning of the word "Am" (people) today on The Jewish Story.

The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer

The Jewish Story: Movement and Controversy

By The Land of Israel

Two decades after the Baal Shem Tov died a movement sprung up from his revolutionary thoughts, but not without controversy. Today on The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer.

The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer

The Jewish Story: A Light Out Of Darkness

By The Land of Israel

Out of the darkness of the Middle Ages a new light will emerged. Learn about the rise of the Ba'al Shem Tov and the Chasidic movement with Rabbi Mike Feuer on this week's episode of The Jewish Story.

The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer

The Jewish Story: A Blessing And A Curse

By The Land of Israel

Telling a story of the past in order to make a present identity, today with Rav Mike on The Jewish Story.

Headline / US / Politics / The Courts / Anti-Israel NGOs / Jerusalem / On Campus / Education

Anti-Zionist Group with Winning Court Record Targeting Birthright Provider

By JNi.Media

In the very recent past, this anti-Zionist group went after one of the most fundamental concepts in the history of the Zionist movement in the Land of Israel: Avoda Ivrit – Jewish Labor.

Ari Fuld's Sword of Israel

KRISTALLNACHT ‘The Night of Broken Glass’

By Ari Fuld HY"D

I remember growing up and wondering why my grandmother would jump and go pale every-time a glass broke in the house.

The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer

The Jewish Story: The Lion's Roar

By The Land of Israel

There was more to the Golden Age of Tzefat than the writing of authoritative legal texts. Hear more on today's The Jewish Story with Rav Mike.

The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer

The Jewish Story: Tradition And Authority

By The Land of Israel

How did R' Yosef Karo became the greatest legal authority of his day? Today on The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer.

Featured / The Jewish Story with Rabbi Mike Feuer

The Jewish Story: The Merchant Queen

By The Land of Israel

Hear the story of most powerful Jewish woman since Queen Esther, Gracia Mendes with Rabbi Mike Feuer today on The Jewish Story.

Featured / History / Travel / Germany / Holocaust

Unique Tourism Outfit Offers Luxurious Jewish Heritage Cruises in Germany's Rivers

By JNi.Media

In case you were curious, the Dachau concentration camp is one of the final stops on the Uniworld Cruise.

Sponsored Posts / Jewish / Jerusalem

Join the 'Walk Around the Walls' on Tisha B'Av

By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar

Every year, thousands of Jews join in the annual Tisha B'Av eve walk.

Featured / US / Politics / Government / History / Video of the Day / Media / Anti-Israel NGOs / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Religion / Settlements / Aliyah / Geulah

Watch Yishai Fleisher Out-Debating J Street Opponent

By JNi.Media

There's much misinformation, misconception and ignorance in the American Jewish community about Israel, which Yishai did a lot to dispel over at that Beverly Hills event.

Featured / Israel / US / Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / Media

Mayim Bialik, on the Side of the Angels, Puts Linda Sarsour in her Place

By JNi.Media

'Bad things happen when we paint with such a broad brush. It’s bigotry.'

Soul Talk

SOUL TALK - Understanding and Coping With The Current Upsurge of Anti-Semitism

By Israel News Talk Radio

How do we understand the root of anti-Semitism and what can we do about it?

Israel / US / Politics / News Briefs / Europe / Anti-Israel NGOs / On Campus / Education

Knesset Committee Hears Diaspora Jewish Students Won't Support Israel in US, Europe, Fearing Anti-Semitism

By JNi.Media

Canada's former Justice Minister, said the current level of anti-Semitism 'is the highest in 40 years, and includes the rejection of Israel's right to exist at all, and the portrayal of Israel as a monster and enemy of mankind.'

Haredim & Hassidim / US / Politics / History / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Eastern Europe / Assimilation

Exhibition: The Jewish Ghetto in Postcards from Eastern Europe to Downtown Manhattan

By JNi.Media

From 1880 to 1924, one third of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe left shtetls and cities for the United States, fleeing persecution and seeking economic opportunity.

Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education / Religion / Germany / Judaism

Do you know a Jew? No?! Rent one!

By JNi.Media

There are 250,000 Jews in Germany, but few Germans know a Jew personally, according to Rent-a Jew.

US / Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

'Jewish Pirates Make Pirates More Interesting'

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Jewish pirates aren't more interesting Jews; Jewish pirates make pirates more interesting, says the filmmaker.

Jewish / UK / History / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

2000 Years of Jewish Culture Exhibition at London's Shapero Rare Books

By JNi.Media

Bernard Shapero said that “the whole exhibition shows the positive side of Judaism. There’s no Holocaust material or anti-Semitic material, which forms a large part of collecting in this field.”

The Muqata

Peter Beinart's Bilaam Moment

By JoeSettler

Let's revel in Peter Beinart's unintended "Ma Tovu" praise of the Jewish state: "It’s modern; it’s democratic; it’s pro-American."

Uncategorized / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Lauder at 70th Bergen-Belsen Liberation Ceremony: 'Silence Emboldens Tyrants'

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Lauder: 'Jews demanded no 'Right of Return' to Germany or Austria or Poland or any other European country.'

Video of the Day

Zionism in Animation

By Video of the Day

‘Zionism in Animation’, aims to tell the story of Zionism in a series of 100 short animated clips, and is the brainchild of Shlomo Blass, head of Rogatka.

United with Israel

Garin Tzabar: Helping Lone Soldiers Feel At Home In Israel

By Rachel Avraham

Israel’s Garin Tzabar program, supporting ‘lone soldiers’ with no family in Israel, recently welcomed close to 360 young women and men from around the world into its care.

Fresno Zionism

Google and the Defenders of Kfar Etzion

By Vic Rosenthal

Not one Jew was allowed to remain on the Jordanian side of the cease-fire line.

United with Israel

The Jewish Connection to Israel: Sephardic Aliyot

By Rachel Avraham

One of the medieval Aliyot was that of the Sephardic Jewish community which fled Spain following the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition.

United with Israel

Rachel’s Tomb: A Jewish Holy Site Since Ancient Times

By Rachel Avraham

The sixteenth century Arab historian Mujir Al Din wrote that Rachel’s Tomb was a Jewish holy place.

My Right Word

Who's Denying Whose Heritage?

By Yisrael Medad

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

America's Rabbi / Shmuley Boteach

Was the Holocaust Punishment for Sin?

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Are we to believe that these Jews who were devout and pious were being punished?

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.

The Ettinger Report

The Deeper Meanings of Shavuot

By Yoram Ettinger

Shavuot reflects the centrality of 'seven' in Judaism.

Goldstein on Gelt

Capitalism and the Jews

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

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

Daniel Greenfield

Lag BaOmer: The Fire Burns

By Daniel Greenfield

Few of those dancing in the circle passing around the fire know what they are truly commemorating and yet the act is its own commemoration.

Guest Blog

Jews are Indigenous to the Land of Israel

By Rachel Avraham

None of these archaeological relics would have existed if there weren’t an ancient Jewish kingdom within the Land of Israel.

Guest Blog

The Story of Israel's Independence

By Chloe Valdary

This is Judah’s manifest destiny. This is the uncanny persistence of his youth, the anthem of his old.

Op-Eds

The Brave Soldier from Auschwitz

By Meir Indor

As time went on, as would be expected of me, I lost more and more of my equipment—but not my gun or my tefillin.

Jewish / US / News Briefs / Religion

Museum Seeks Jews’ Memories of Baseball

By JTA

Do you remember where you were when Sandy Koufax said he would not play on Yom Kippur. The National Museum of American Jewish History is looking for you.

Daniel Greenfield

Counting and Remembering the 'Dust of Jacob'

By Daniel Greenfield

The dust is the memory of ages and the children shall always return to the dust of their ancestors.

A Soldier's Mother

Irena Sendler, We Honor You

By Paula R. Stern

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

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.

The Ettinger Report

Passover Guide for the Perplexed 2013

By Yoram Ettinger

Connections between the Jewish and American traditions of liberty.

A Soldier's Mother

The Meaning of Freedom

By Paula R. Stern

Obama's visit remains a symbol that among us are those who still carry the ghetto mentality.

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.

Op-Eds

The German Women Who Stood Up to the Nazis

By Nathan Stoltzfus

In cases where the Nazi regime judged that protest could spark attention from the broader German public, the decision was made for tactical reasons to appease rather than quell with brute force.

Rubin Reports

The Book of Esther: A Political Analysis

By Barry Rubin

Especially remarkable is the behavior of Esther. Warned of Haman’s plan, Esther wants to do nothing lest she place herself at risk.

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.

Guest Blog

Purim and the Right to Bear Arms

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

Four Jews who will not celebrate Purim this year are Yitzhak Ames, Talia Ames, Kochava Even-Haim, and Avishai Schindler - all murdered by Hamas.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Torah and the Secular Jew

By Harry Maryles

As a youth, MK Dr. Ruth Calderon was not satisfied with the secular treatment of Judaism she got in Israeli schools. So eventually she founded a secular yeshiva.

Op-Eds

The Jewish Cemetery in Saudi Arabia

By Nimrod Raphaeli

A cemetery in an oil rich province of Saudi Arabia may be the last vestige of Jewish life there.

The Muqata

When is a Palestinian Not a Palestinian?

By Orat@Muqata

Historically, the Christian residents of Bethlehem did not identify themselves as Arabs.

Op-Eds

Confronting Auschwitz and Birkenau

By Inbar Aberman

Hope is a vital part of visiting the death camps in Europe.

The Muqata

'Third Time, Ice Cream!'

By Lurker and Arnie Draiman

The Israeli phrase, 'Third time, Ice Cream' corresponds to the fact that the third time the ancient Israelites complained to God after the Exodus they got the manna.

The Muqata

The March of the 35: A Bravery Fiercer than Death (Video)

By Jameel@Muqata

65 years ago this week, 35 student soldiers set out from Jerusalem to bring much needed supplies to the kibbutzim in the besieged Etzion Bloc south of the city.

Front Page / Op-Eds

What Judea & Samaria Mean to the Jewish People

By Brandon Marlon

For Jews, the ancient tribal territories of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and west Menasheh – a.k.a. Judea and Samaria or the West Bank – form the very heartland of the homeland.

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.

My Right Word

New Finds from First Temple Period at Motza

By Yisrael Medad

The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the discovery of a rare cache of sacred vessels from the early days of the Kingdom of Judea.

Op-Eds

Taking Advantage of the Siege of Jerusalem

By Avi Zimmerman

Jerusalem's besiegers are a captive audience. It's time for Israel to speak.

CIFWatch

Postcard From Israel: Bet She’an

By Hadar Sela

During the Hellenistic period, the city of Nysa-Scythopolis was founded. In 749 CE it was destroyed in the massive earthquake which hit the area.

Fresno Zionism

Jewish History and Sovereignty Slipping Away

By Vic Rosenthal

This is one of those issues that ought to be shocking, but about which nothing is done. For years — I’ve written about this before — the Muslim waqf that controls the Temple Mount has been systematically destroying archaeological artifacts of Jewish provenance at the site.

The Muqata

The Mount of Olives Declaration

By Orat@Muqata

The main holiday events took place on the last day of Sukkot, Hoshana Raba. The Gaon would lead the people around the Temple Mount, and then the crowd made its way to the Mount of Olives. After they climbed the mountain, they circled it seven times. A monumental stone marked the spot where God looked over the Temple Mount. The Gaon would sit on this stone as he spoke to the assembled crowd.

Op-Eds

Ahmadinejad's Lies at the UN

By Gil Lavie, Tazpit News Agency

Defying historical fact, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad continued his existential verbal attacks on the State of Israel, claiming Israel has no historical basis in the Middle East Region.

My Right Word

Jerusalem Demographics 1800-1922

By Yisrael Medad

On the issue of demographics, the numbers make things quite clear that even before modern Zionism began, the city was Jewish and only Muslim repressive policies artificially kept the numbers of Jews down before the mid-19th century.

The Muqata

When the Wall Falls

By Orat@Muqata

The ancient synagogue in Meron is located on a hill above the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Like other Galilean synagogues from the Byzantine era, its entrance faces south, towards Jerusalem. But what makes this synagogue special is a story from its later history.

Op-Eds

Airbrushing The Past Creates Problems In The Present

By Rabbi Berel Wein

There is an old rabbinic anecdote about a rabbi who was called on to deliver a eulogy for someone who had no redeeming social value whatsoever. The rabbi was hard pressed to think of anything positive to say about this person. So when he spoke he solemnly pronounced: “No matter how evil the deceased truly was, he was still a far better person than was his brother!”

Torah

The Sin of the Spies - Perspective

By Rabbi Shimshon HaKohen Nadel

The message of the Biblical account of the Spies has tremendous relevance today, here in the modern State of Israel. With a nuclear threat from Iran, enemy states on its borders, the ever-constant fear of terrorism, and pressure from the International Community, Israel is not without its challenges. But it’s also the ‘Start Up Nation,’ with a healthy, growing economy when most of the world’s economies are failing.

Arts

Jewish Women Artists - Commentators on Contemporary Jewish Life

By Jacob Mezrahi

Everybody reads comics. From the New York Times to the Post there is hardly any periodical published that doesn’t sometimes feature a cartoon or comic; some kind of drawn image with text to entertain or provide commentary. Even the Jewish Press. When most people think of comics they immediately think of fictional comic books that kids read or the comic strips in the daily newspapers for adults.

Serials

Persuaded - Chapter II

By Barbara Bensoussan

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