Barely five weeks after the Wehrmacht’s onslaught against Russia, Reich Marshal Hermann Goering issued the following directive on July 31, 1941 to Chief of Gestapo Reinhard Heydrich: I hereby commission you to carry out all necessary preparations with regard to organizational and financial matters for bringing about a total solution of the Jewish question in [...]

Eli E. Hertz In an interview with Republican Presidential Primary front-runner and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, a former Professor and Historian, he explains his position on the Arab-Israeli conflict and states that the Palestinians are “an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs.” It is time to tell the truth that [...]

By David Meir-Levi The cornerstone argument in the Arab narrative against Israel is that the Zionists in the 19th and early 20th centuries came to the Land of Israel and stole Arab land. This is a very simple assertion, easy to visualize, seemingly logical and amenable to a brief presentation: after all, Zionists did come [...]

Jerusalem, 23 November 2011 For further information, kindly contact: Yoli Shwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority spokesperson, 052-5991888 dovrut@israntique.org.il Professor Ronny Reich of the University of Haifa and Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority: A ritual bath exposed beneath the Western Wall of the Temple Mount shows that the construction of that wall was not completed [...]

By: Hillel Fendel Date: Tuesday, October 18 2011 How does an American Jew go about finding the Ukrainian non-Jew who, 65 years ago, saved his mother’s life by hiding her in his hayloft for three years? For Ethan Schaff, a lawyer from Massachusetts, it was like looking for a human needle in the haystack of [...]

“La verdad va enriva como la aceite” [Truth rises to the top just like oil] –Traditional proverb quoted by Moshe Lazar, Sefarad in my Heart What is Ladino? Anyone who has already approached the language for sometime, will have noticed that scholars, writers, and speakers disagree about the very name of what they are referring [...]

Central ceremony at Military Synagogue at Har Herzl mark 38 years since the war that claimed 2,689 Israeli lives. Gil Ronen In dozens of cemeteries throughout Israel, ceremonies are being held Sunday for the fallen soldiers of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The central memorial ceremony took place at the Military Synagogue at Har Herzl, [...]

On October 6, 1973, Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), the holiest day on the Jewish religious calendar, Egypt and Syria took advantage of optimal circumstances to launch attacks that took Israel by surprise. So complete was the element of surprise that when war erupted, Israel was only beginning to mobilize the reserve forces which [...]

Unique exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem presents the Shofar as a witness to the history of the Jewish people Gavriel Queenann & Yoni K. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Arutz Sheva visited the “Sound of the Shofar” exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem. Throughout Jewish history the Shofar has [...]