Years before Herzl dreamed of a Zionist movement, and well before Tel Aviv was even a dream, B’nai B’rith’s Sha’ar Zion Lodge in Jaffa was hard at work bringing the American organization’s values of Jewish solidarity, progress, and culture
Five gunshots fired on a busy Paris street in broad daylight set the scene for a controversial murder trial. A Jewish watchmaker confessed to the crime, but the resulting proceedings tried the victim rather than his killer, giving the casua
Upon learning that every last Jew there had been murdered by the Nazis, Agnon set about recreating Buczacz in all its vibrancy, from its heyday as a seat of Jewish learning until the day its last Jew fell dead upon the hill
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Why did Herod bury his architectural masterpiece and final resting place, and who discovered it?
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Herodium National Park
Herzl has Herzliya, Montefiore has the
Fifty years after the war whose losses tarnished her legacy forever, Golda Meir is the subject of a new film and biography. Surprisingly, both the Israeli and American perspectives – zooming in on the war and out on a career spanning five d
The accessibility project that has transformed Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum over the past three years is no mere facelift. The fortress itself now takes center stage, serving as a gateway to the city of faiths
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Lack of water was one of the young State of Israel’s greatest challenges. Though desalinization has made that issue history, the story of Lake Yeruham reflects the state’s changing attitude toward water over the years
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Shylock’s Venice
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