Though largely banned from performing for whites, blacks were the butt of jokes in minstrel shows throughout the 19th...
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Tel Aviv’s Gordon Beach was recently the scene of a dramatic reenactment. No Crusaders or Saracens on horseback were...
November 21 1985 – 8 Kislev 5745 Washington, D.C. Jonathan Pollard was arrested at the entrance to the Israeli Embassy....
Ben-Gurion could never have declared a state in May 1948 without first painstakingly transforming Palestine’s ragtag Jewish militias into...
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Despite Prohibition, rabbis were permitted to provide their congregants with wine with which to sanctify the Sabbath, opening a...
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