Ten years ago today, I was desperately yanking hunks of concrete from the remnants of the World Trade Center. But no one was left to save. Hana Levi Julian, LCSW-R “Can you handle it if I send you the link to the new video clip of Ground Zero?” My colleague wasn’t being kind last Thursday [...]

By: Prof. Livia Bitton Jackson Whenever I drive to Jerusalem and pass Wingate Institute, a few miles south of Netanya, the name Alice Ivy Hay pops into my mind. She is one of those rare women who was famous as a mother-in-law. Although a noted author, singer and pianist, her major claim to fame was [...]

By: Dr. Rafael Medoff The abandonment of Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust has been well documented. But in recent years historians increasingly have turned their attention to the actions of the Roosevelt administration during the 1930s, before the genocide began. What could have been done while the Six Million were still alive? This compelling question [...]

The City of David gives visitors a tour of Jerusalem’s history starting from finds from the days of King David. Elad Benari The story of the City of David began about 3,000 years ago when King David decided to leave Hevron and move to Jerusalem in order to unite the people of Israel around one [...]

By: Steven Plaut Jews have long been accused of studying anti-Christian texts supposedly contained in the Talmud. Such allegations have been made for so many centuries that even some civilized and fair-minded individuals accept them at face value. Needless to say, the allegations are the staple fare of anti-Semitic organizations and websites. And it was [...]

By Dean Malik First they invaded; five Arab armies, from Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq all descended. Israel was a state newly formed of a small core of native Sabras from the first five Aliyas along with the battered survivors of the Holocaust and a small cadre of American and British WWII [...]

Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought,” Based on Jewish Sages 1. The Ninth Day of Av is the most calamitous day in Jewish history. Fasting on Tisha’ Be’Av commemorates catastrophic national destructions and the moral causes for the destruction. It was first mentioned in the book of Zechariah 7:3. 2. Major Jewish calamities occurred on the Ninth [...]

By: Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein It’s a well-known cliche that Jerusalem is “holy to the three main religions” – and in truth, it is not surprising. After all, the city was first holy to the Jews – and so it was inevitable that the rest of the world would ultimately jump on the bandwagon. [...]

By: Jason Maoz, Senior Editor The “Bergson Boys” have finally come home. With an international conference at Yad Vashem, a reinterment ceremony in Israel, and the publication of a new book, the controversial Holocaust rescue activists last week took a major step forward in gaining the public recognition they were long denied. Led by Hillel [...]

The Quality Of Mercy Susan de la Fuente              What was the moral motivation of gentiles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust? During a recent conference at Yad Vashem, Prof. Wolfgang Bialas of the Hannah Arendt Institute in Dresden, Germany presented some research findings on the mindset of non-Jewish Berliners who sheltered Jews and helped [...]