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What Happens to Israel When Democrats Are in the White House?
07/01/2021 - 12:33
The original decision over whether to recognize Israel in 1948 set up one of the most bitter policy fights in U.S. history. Nearly the... →
Ghost Citizens: Jewish Return to a Postwar Poland
24/12/2020 - 13:38
In his book, “Ghost Citizens: Jewish Return to a Postwar City,” Krzyzanowski examines this phenomenon by focusing on the mid-sized... →
Unknown pages in the history of Jewish resistance to the Nazis
16/12/2020 - 13:09
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is perhaps the Holocaust’s most famous act of Jewish resistance. It is, though, far from the only one, as an... →
From Mecca to Jerusalem
11/12/2020 - 15:14
In the beginning, there was the Prophet Muhammad's night journey in the sky and ascent into the heavens, and some say it was nothing more... →
A Promised Land book by Barack Obama
20/11/2020 - 13:46
In a lengthy interview with The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, Obama spoke primarily about US politics and the first... →
Time capsule found in Manchester synagogue
03/10/2020 - 13:37
Early synagogue minutes show records of the capsule being laid in the cornerstone of the original building around 1873. “We were taking... →
The Vatican and the Jews: Secrets in the Archives
02/10/2020 - 13:33
The case sparked intense public controversy. Le Monde, typical of much of the French media, devoted 178 articles in the first half of... →
Ukraine signs memorandum supporting Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
01/10/2020 - 16:25
The Babyn Yar tragedy was one of the largest instances of mass murder during the Holocaust. There were 33,771 Jewish victims who were shot... →
The World That Made Stalin — and the World That Stalin Made
22/09/2020 - 12:30
The Left has been saddled, hobbled, crippled by the legacy of Stalin and Stalinism. Liberals and conservatives constantly resurrect the... →
Stephen F. Cohen
21/09/2020 - 18:42
From the sprawling conflicts of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the tyrannies of Stalin to the collapse of the Soviet Union and Vladimir... →
How Did World War II End?
10/09/2020 - 13:53
The vast majority of those who died in history’s deadliest war were civilians, including 6 million Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps... →
Jewish resistance stories in London Holocaust exhibition
08/08/2020 - 12:37
A new exhibition, drawing on thousands of previously unseen documents and manuscripts, is placing some of the little-known personal stories... →

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