The Rush From Gold To Jewels
Kesser Israel is the stronghold for Torah Judaism, for Yiddishkeit, in the Pacific Northwest, and for Oregon in particular. Located in the progressive city of Portland, it is a laidback congregation...
View ArticleIsrael’s Black Panthers
In the wake of its election loss, the Black Panther movement essentially ended. It had failed to radicalize most Mizrachim. Nonetheless, the issues and needs of Mizrachim subsequently took a front and...
View ArticleMiller Shechitah Knives
Each product was marked "J. & D. Miller, N.Y., Guaranteed," and the brothers were well known for repairing or sharpening their products as needed, even years after their purchase.
View ArticleWalt Disney, Mickey Mouse, And The Nazis
Walt never met with Hitler, but it is beyond dispute that the Fuhrer adored Disney’s work.
View ArticleA 16th Century Censored Mishnah
After the Talmud was burned, all remaining Hebrew books had to be submitted to the Catholic Inquisition for censorship.
View ArticleThe History Of Aviation In Pre-State Eretz Yisrael
The Second Maccabiah (Jewish Olympic) Games, which were held in Tel Aviv in April 1935, included flying competitions, and a group of Jewish fliers arrived from Germany with two German-built gliders.
View ArticleNathan Rapoport And The Warsaw Ghetto Monument
By the time the Jewish Museum of the History of Polish Jews was opened across from the monument in 2013, the memorial had lost all its visual prominence and blended into the surrounding landscape.
View ArticleA Satirical Ben-Gurion
Among your members in the Knesset are people from whom nothing is withheld and who, in their empty speech, are capable of achieving the most difficult assignments.
View ArticleA Shul With A Story: Praying In Spiritual Harmony – Young Israel Beth El of...
Young Israel Beth El is more than a beautiful synagogue with unique and unified davening, it is a congregation with a soul.
View ArticleEarthquakes In Eretz Yisrael
Efforts quickly turned to providing humanitarian relief to quake victims in what is considered the first internationally-organized relief campaign.
View ArticleNazi Propaganda – Owned By A Jew
This Jew owned several classic and obscure anti-Semitic works, including a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion...
View ArticleIssac Mayer Wise vs. Isaac Leeser
It is undisputed that, unlike Leeser, Wise was an academic and rabbinical fraud.
View ArticleOriginal Letter By The Haktav Vehakabbalah
Considering his goal, it is not surprising that alongside the Vilna Gaon and Shadal, we find references by the author to non-Rabbinic sources, such as Julius Fürst, Moses Mendelsson, and Naphtali Hirz...
View ArticleHermann Hesse, The Nazis, And Anti-Semitism
Hermann Karl Hesse (1877-1962), a Nobel Prize-winning German novelist and poet, is best known for his inspired explorations of self-understanding, spiritual realization, and psychology, particularly in...
View ArticleThe Legendary Shapiro Shas
The dispute evolved into a fierce fight between chassidim defending the Shapiros and mitnagdim defending the Romm printers.
View ArticleThe Jewish Soul Of Meyer Lansky
In 1946, Lansky ordered his men to help bring Holocaust survivors to Eretz Yisrael and facilitate the establishment of the Jewish state.
View ArticleAdams & Jefferson Respond To A Jewish Leader
Noah tried to found a Jewish state at Grand Island in the Niagara River, to be called Ararat.
View ArticleAmud Aish: Holocaust And Rebirth
This is not history to be relegated to the past and forgotten.
View ArticleSaving Lives
"Gruninger paid a high price for the choice he made. In the struggle between his sense of duty as a police officer, and dedication to the concepts of humanity, the latter triumphed," states Yad Vashem.
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