Jewish Journal2h
The Unbreakable Freedom Of Shabbat
For generations of Jews, the Shabbat represented an unbreakable freedom. They knew every new Pharaoh was a phony, and that no ...
The Forward11h
Why a 100-year-old film about a ‘City Without Jews’ seems disturbingly prescient today
Hans Karl Breslauer's 1924 'The City Without Jews' resonates in an environment of rising antisemitism and threatened ...
What does the Bible say about who belongs in the ‘promised land’? A biblical scholar explains
What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.
The Christian Century18h
How the West Bank settlements have changed Israel
Since the late 1970s, the future of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank has been the country’s most divisive debate. Yet the once-fringe settler movement has arguably become the most influential ...
Historians say homes in Natick, Sudbury were used to help slaves escape the South
Israel How Browne, also known as Israel Howe Browne, lived at 71 Concord St. He was known to allow escaped slaves to sleep in ...
Opinion
Jewish Press1dOpinion
Most Palestinian Families Come from Immigrants from the Past Two Centuries
Identity in the Middle East is still shaped by social and economic relationships rather than by modern political boundaries.
Lebanon’s Returnees Find a Homeland Battered and in Need of Their Help
Some who left the country in successive waves of emigration have felt drawn back to aid recovery efforts after the bloody and ...
Crashed ‘carma’: Haifa exhibit shows history of Israel's failed auto industry
From a peak during the 1960s of manufacturing more than 3,000 cars annually, 1980 – the last full year of production – saw ...
The Forward7d
In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote ‘Ulysses’ a Jewish poet’s bookstore rises back to life
In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...
Washington Examiner14d
Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ seeks to make America ‘greater’ in size by carving the world into 19th century-style spheres of influence
When, fresh from his November election victory, President Donald Trump began musing about buying Greenland, repossessing the Panama Canal, and annexing Canada, many people dismissed his visions of ...
Reuters16d
Australia's Albanese defends antisemitism response as Israel urges more action
SYDNEY, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Israel urged Australia to do more to ... Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017 ...
Connecticut Post18d
Harvard expands its definition of antisemitism – when does criticism of Israel cross a line?
In the 19th century, these myths were supplanted by the ... because they are said to constitute a foreign element. Since Israel’s establishment in 1948, this hatred has focused on the accusation ...