Barry Rubin – The Rubin Report – April 20, 2012 Every Yom HaShoah I try to write something from my family’s own history as an illustration of wider themes. The material below, that happened almost 70 years ago to the day, is from my probably never-to-be-published book, Children of Dolhinov. Before dawn of Monday, March [...]

See and hear the story of Yisrael Aviram (Kalisky), a Holocaust survivor who later immigrated to Israel. Elad BenariThe following video tells the story of Holocaust survivor Yisrael Aviram (Kalisky). Yisrael was born in 1926 in the city of Lodz, Poland. He was thirteen years old when the Second World War broke out. In 1940, [...]

Famed Israeli spy Eli Cohen managed to eat matzah on Passover while high in the Syrian elite, his widow says. Maayana Miskin Israeli spy Eli Cohen managed to eat matzah on Passover even while deeply enmeshed in life among the Syrian elite, his widow Nadia told Arutz Sheva. Nadia explained that she had just heard [...]

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 [...]