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Long Before Balfour – Balfour Declaration

Ran Ichay

While the Balfour Declaration is famous as the first major step toward creating a modern Jewish homeland in the land of Israel, the groundwork was laid centuries earlier, gaining momentum with the approach of World War I Ran Ichay

The Pledge on the Mountain – Sigd

Liat Josefsberg Ben-Yehoshua

For generations, the Jews of Ethiopia renewed God’s covenant with an annual pilgrimage to a sacred mountain. What remains of that ritual in Israel today? Liat Josefsberg Ben-Yehoshua Etthiopia, on the eve of 29 Heshvan. From wid

Egypt’s Jewish Molière – James Sanua

Amr Zakaria Khalil

Banished from Egypt time and again for promoting nationalism and exposing government corruption, James Sanua harnessed humor and drama to continue jabbing at the regime from afar. Soon his satirical journal’s popularity outstripped even tha

The Gateway – Battle for Palestine

Yagil Henkin and Anat Stern

What began as the British defense of the vital Suez Canal culminated in a fierce offensive that opened up the Holy Land to Allied forces. Incredible logistics, sophisticated decoys, and a larger-than-life horseback charge all made this batt

Return of the Spies – Nili

Yemima Hovav

In the dark days of World War I, members of the Nili spy ring foresaw the new order emerging in the Middle East and opted to work with the British, despite all the risks. To other early Zionists, they were foolhardy adventurers, or even tra

The Pilgrims’ Progress

Shulamith Mishkin

As we follow in the footsteps of the Second Temple period pilgrims, the archeological remains of ancient Jerusalem bring their experience vividly to life. The roads they travelled, the ritual baths, the steps they climbed – all still bear p

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From the Archives | Damned If You Do

Elizabeth Levin

Correspondence by and about a Jewish U.S. Army chaplain working in Dachau reveals a hero battling bureaucracy to help his fellow Jews Elizabeth Levin Germany’s surrender to the Allied forces in May 1945 marked the official end o

Did Jew Know? | Jewish Statistics from World War I

Segula Editorial

1. Rank and File Roughly 1.35 million Jews fought in World War I, in the following armies: 500,000 – Russian320,000 – Austro-Hungarian250,000 – American100,000 – German55,000 – French35,000 – British   2. Jew against Jew In dozens of docume