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With high walls, barbed wire, and hundreds of local gendarmes and Nazi overseers, escape from Terezin (Theresienstadt) was virtually impossible. Within the walls of this old garrison town, despite starvation, overcrowding, disease, and the constant threat of deportation, after long days of back-breaking labor Jewish inmates were relatively free to organize their own activities in […]
On October 6th, 2023, Moran Stela Yanai cried all day. She wasn’t sad; she just couldn’t stop. “I thought something was wrong with me,” she says. The next morning she was kidnapped from the Nova music festival and taken to Gaza, where she was held for 54 days. Looking back, she sees a sequence she […]
It’s no wonder “The Long Journey Home: The Untold Story of Iraq’s Jews” opens with a question. “Where are your Jews?” asked Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, in a 2017 speech to the United Nations that went viral. “How many Jews live in your countries?” he asked the delegates. “How many Jews lived […]
The Philistines supposedly showed up 500 years after Abraham and Isaac. So why does Genesis put them in Gerar? The answer lies in a recycled name and a broken pot.
