Jewish History

Akko Tower Wreck probably dates to early 19th century

AKKO, Israel (Press Release) — The Akko Tower Wreck has been playing tricks with researchers for over 50 years. The shipwreck was discovered during the first maritime archaeological survey conducted in Israel using remote sensing technology, in 1966, and bears the distinction of being the first shipwreck identified off the coast of Israel. But the […]

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Peace in Palestine: Balfour Apology Is a Distraction

If love means never having to say you are sorry, then the renewed push for the U.K. to “atone” for the 1917 Balfour Declaration is yet another reminder of the bad blood between Israelis and Palestinians—and of how elusive peace remains. Today, on 99th anniversary of the letter, which endorsed “the establishment in Palestine of

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

Hamburg, in Germany, Celebrates a Somber, Progressive Jewish First

November 1, 2016: The Reform congregation in Hamburg of Germany has dedicated its very first Jewish Cemetery. The community’s section of the Ohlsdorf cemetery was inaugurated by Rabbi Moshe Navon, head of the Liberal Congregation in Bad Pyrmont, earlier this month. The inauguration was supported with $3,280 worth of gift for plantings at the area

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion

A history of the Soviet Union’s failed Jewish republic

Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region by Masha Gessen, Nextbooks, Schocken, New York ©2016, ISBN 978-0-8052-4246-1, p. 147, plus notes, published sources, and index, $25.00 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –  In 1908, about a decade after the first Zionist Congress, the British government offered territory

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History

Portugal sitting on citizenship applications from Jews

Despite Portugal’s offer to grant citizenship to Sephardic Jews descended from Jews persecuted in the Inquisition, 92% of applications are still pending, with only 292 out of 3,838 approved in the past year and a half. However, no applications have been denied thus far. Portugal’s “law of return” allows those who can prove “a traditional

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International, Jewish History

UNESCO vote opens door to continued terrorism against Israel by in essence labeling Jews as usurpers

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts –Seeming to parallel the dystopian world described by George Orwell in 1984 in which history and fact are manipulated to serve political ends, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently voted 24-6 to approve a resolution stripping the Temple Mount and Western Wall of its

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts

Death threats for condemning anti-Israel UNESCO resolutions

The chief of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, has received “death threats” after she criticized a series of controversial Arab-backed resolutions which seek to erase the Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations organization said on Monday. “The director general has received death

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East

Exhibit opens on Newark’s philanthropist, Louis Bamberger

Department store magnate aided Jewish and general communities Linda Forgosh, director of the Jewish Historical Society of NJ, holds her book, Louis Bamberger: Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist. Photo by Robert Wiener A cardboard replica of Louis Bamberger and the landmark clock outside his department store is the logo for “Meet Me Under Bamberger’s Clock.”

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Jewish History, USA

Liviu Librescu — hero of the Virginia Tech massacre

By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — At 10 o’clock in the morning on April 16, 2007 sirens sounded all over Israel and the country came to a standstill, people stopped what they were doing, pulled over in their cars and stood in remembrance. It was Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day to remember

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

The Temple Mount, UNESCO and Western shame

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization voted on 13th October against the very principles that it was created. UNESCO was founded in 1945 after World War Two to establish humanity’s moral and intellectual solidarity. It says it strives to build networks among nations to enable this

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA