"While diplomats and media the world over were promoting a solution that calls for the expulsion of Jews from Judea and Samaria, no one ever paused to research how many Jews actually live there," said Katz. "It was as though this key statistic was being purposely suppressed," he added. ...
According to their beliefs, they achieved immortality in the afterlife for their sacrifice, and many live on today as legendary icons. In both Judaism and Christianity, we see examples of laying down one's life rather than submitting to an enemy. In the stories of the nine Maccabees and the...
J. F. M. SMIT
“place to live, sleep, and hopefully heal. more than ever before, each of us is responsible for the survival and fate of our community.” apart is about a shtetl —a village of jews—in 19th century europe. according to a 2018 tablet magazine review ,“a ragtag bunch of shtetl-...
infrastructure and unrecognition by the state, they were largely left to navigate the pandemic’s challenges independently. In terms of well-being, the Arabs demonstrated internalization of the pandemic threat, evidenced by higher distress and lower resilience levels than Jews (Ali & Rosenberg,...
The movie "Jud Suss," filmed at the behest of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, portrayed Jews as greedy and treacherous. It became required viewing for SS storm troopers [source: Connolly]. The Nazis also used radio and put modern presses to work churning out vast numbers of books,...
Josh’s grandparents, Rae and Joseph, were Holocaust survivors; they met in Belarus, in a colony of Jews who had escaped Nazi roundups and were living in hiding. The couple made it to the United States in 1949, and Joseph became a successful carpenter. Charlie joined him in the early ’...
How many Jews died in the First Crusade? How many Battles did Joshua fight in the Bible? How many wives did Ramses have? How many children did Ramses II have? How many years did Medgar Evers serve in the military? How old was Nerva when he died?
I was in the ROTC when Pearl Harbor was attacked. More than 2,000 soldiers were killed, many more wounded on that historic day. At this point in time, we hadn't entered the war yet. The Army back then was not what it is today, they didn't have substantial f...
After visiting Italy for the first time with her father in 1975, Rabbi Barbara Aiello, from the United States, remembers thinking, “I’ll live here one day.” Almost three decades later she was doing just that.