The story of Kedumim is the story of the modern-day renewal of Jewish settlement in Samaria. Kedumim is the first Jewish community in Samaria. Kedumim is the first Jewish community in Samaria. It is located in the heart of Israel, just two miles west of Shechem and 12 miles east of Kfar Saba and Netanya, […]

Part One of a Seven-Part Series Benjamin Papermaster was born in the fall of 1860 in the village of Anolova, Kovno, Lithuania. The children received their first training in the rudiments of Judaism from their parents, particularly their father, who had been a student at the famous Slobodker Yeshiva in Kovno. Of the boys only […]

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | (KRT) In spring of 1945, as the Allies were marching to victory in Europe, Magda Katona was riding a boxcar away from Auschwitz, on a journey through Eastern Europe toward her hometown in Hungary. About the same time, another train was steaming in the opposite direction, out of Hungary, away from the advancing […]

The Jewish community of Ferrara bulks large in the history of Jews in the Emilia Romagna region, not only because of its cultural prestige but also because it is the only one with a continuous presence from the Middle Ages to the present. It played an important role when Ferrara enjoyed its greatest splendor in […]

The Jerusalem Post’s feature “This day in history” reports on October 1, 1898, when a racist Russian Czar bars Jews from living in major Russian cities: 1898: A decree by the Russian czar Nicholas II explicitly bars Jews from living in major Russian cities. The action follows laws issued the previous May, restricting Jewish settlement […]

In a rare success by scholars attempting to match existing archaeological structures with events in the Bible, researchers say they have shown conclusively that Jerusalem’s King Hezekiah built the meandering Siloam Tunnel beneath the city around 700 B.C. to discourage the Assyrian Empire from laying siege. The tunnel runs 1,749 feet southwest from Gihon Spring […]

Like Lawrence, Sir Mark Sykes (1879-1919) was a traveler, soldier and diplomat. He was aptly described by a contemporary as a type of the English romantic eccentrics who almost by accident made the British Empire. As one of the two assistant secretaries to the Brutish war cabinet during World War I, he participated in the […]

The End of the Indian Diaspora One Shabbat in July 1987, for the first time since the synagogue was built 419 years ago, there was no minyan in the fabled Paradesi Synagogue of Cochin. Since the beginning of 1987, the population of Jew Town, once about 300, has diminished from 33 to 29 due to […]

Golda Meir’s life was interwined with the development of the State of Israel, from her involvement as a pioneer during the struggle for statehood, through her rise to lead the country as Prime Minster from 1969-1974. Golda was a formidable woman. She appeared tall and austere, with the stresses of hard life relfected in her […]

The Doctors’ Plot was the beginning of the Communists’ Final Solution. Stalin’s Last Crime The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors 1948-1953 by Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov HarperCollins, 399 pp., $26.95 THERE’S NOTHING NEW about the upsurge in recent months of leftist theories about Jewish conspiracies, particularly in Europe. Anti-Semitism has long been established […]