History

by The Sydenham Shul

This short inspiring video retells Israel’s miraculous rescue of 102 hostages at Entebbe.

by Josh Aronson

Violinist Bronislaw Huberman's extraordinary efforts saved hundreds of Jewish families from the Holocaust and changed the landscape of cultural history.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

“Red Haggadahs” were published in the 1920s with the explicit goal of replacing belief in God with faith in Communist Russia.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller and aish.com

Little-known facts about Jews in American politics.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Some lesser-known facts about Jewish individuals and communities in Early America.

by Rivka Ronda Robinson

Henry Gallant was a passenger on the doomed SS St. Louis that fled Nazi Germany but was refused entry.

by Rivka Ronda Robinson

The university has apologized for its shameful anti-Semitic treatment of Jewish dental students decades ago.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Some of the most famous foods today share surprising connections to Jews.

by Toldot Yisrael

Dramatic stories of Jews from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Iraq who overcame great obstacles to reach the Land of Israel.

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

FDR did not support the creation of Israel. Destiny had other plans.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller and aish.com

Everything you need to know about Israel’s capital.

by Michael Ignatieff

One country saved its Jews. Were they just better people?

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller and aish.com

Everything you need to know about Israel’s most-visited site. Perfect to share for Jerusalem Day.

by Lenny Ben-David

William H. Seward’s travelogue describes Friday Night Services at the Western Wall.

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

A controversial new book reveals new evidence of Jewish movie moguls’ collaboration with Nazis.

by Abraham Rabinovich

A reporter’s firsthand account of the unintended conquest.

How a group of American fighter pilots risked their lives for the fledgling State of Israel.

by Toldot Yisrael

From 1946 - 1949, Jews from around the world volunteered to help build and defend the State of Israel.

by Jeff Jacoby

Book review of When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone, by Gal Beckerman.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Recent rhetoric has raised the specter once again.

by Toldot Yisrael

Eyewitness accounts of the November 1947 UN vote to partition Mandate Palestine into two states.

by Toldot Yisrael

The remarkable men who blew the shofar at the end of Yom Kippur at the Western Wall before the founding of the State of Israel.

by Toby Klein Greenwald

My daughter discovered the oldest known writing in Jerusalem.

by Peter Lane Taylor

The remarkable story of a group of Holocaust survivors who hid in one of the world's largest caves.

by Toby Klein Greenwald

Eighty years ago, an Arab mob went on a rampage and murdered 69 Jews.

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

A stunning victory of Jewish unity.

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

My house in the Old City of Jerusalem is a portal to the long chain of Jewish history.

by Jeff Jacoby

New research shows that Harvard, like other elite institutions, was largely unmoved by the early horrors of the Hitler regime.

by Larry Domnitch

On that Yom Kippur the community wept, as they confronted the plight of Jewish children forced to serve in the Russian army.

by Debbi Wilgoren

The story behind Ilan Ramon's Torah scroll from the Holocaust.

by Charles Krauthammer

The "Jenin massacre" is more than a fiction. It is a hoax, perpetrated in a world of monstrous moral inversion.

A mother, who mobilized the world to save her son -- an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas terrorists -- tells the story of one fateful week in the history of Israel.

by Mark Twain

The closing paragraphs are famous, but few have read Mark Twain's complete article. It's long but fascinating. Print and read.

by Ruchama Feuerman

In Israel's darkest moment, outnumbered and surrounded by enemies, an old woman sees what no one else can see.