According to Tina Levitan’s extraordinary book, “First Facts in American Jewish History,” around 1861, “…a flag with Hebrew lettering was presented to President Abraham Lincoln.” Accordingly, many historians claim that Lincoln had many Jewish associates, advisors and supporters. The “Know Nothing Party” On July 21, 1860, Lincoln wrote a letter to one of his friends, […]

Apr 6, 1994 – Eight people were killed in a car-bomb attack on a bus in the center of Afula. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack. Apr 13, 1994 – Five people were killed in a suicide bombing attack on a bus in the central bus station of Hadera. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack. […]

Here are the brief facts on the Israeli conflict today… Takes just 15 minutes to read. It makes sense and it’s historically correct. It’s relevant to both Jews and non Jews. Nationhood and Jerusalem Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, two thousand years before the rise of Islam. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying […]

SOME American Jews have left an indelible, if now nearly forgotten, mark on the nation’s history. Alfred Mordecai was one such individual. He introduced scientific methods into the development of pre-Civil War American military munitions. The outbreak of the Civil War placed Mordecai, a native Southerner, in an untenable moral and emotional dilemma. In 1861, […]

Three suicide bombers explode themselves on Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street pedestrian mall. Five people were killed and 166 wounded.

Shalom. A few years ago, an older man, together with a younger woman, walked into my office here in Hebron. Seeing them, I asked how I could be of assistance. The gentleman said to me, “My name is Salom Goldshmidt. My father Moshe Goldshmidt was murdered here in Hebron in 1929. I’m here with my […]

A History Channel program to be broadcast on the evening of August 9 will reportedly charge that the US and Israel have covered up the facts behind the attack by Israeli jets and torpedo boats on a US intelligence-gathering ship during the 1967 Six Day War. The USS Liberty was steaming more than 10 miles […]

Throughout history, and particularly under Jewish rule, Jerusalem has been the main city in the Judaean Hills, and the chief reason is its geography. Jerusalem stands atop a range of hills, encircled and protected by deep valleys, at the junction of mountain highways, and has always enjoyed an excellent economy, between grainfields to the West […]

In 1907, at just 20 years of age, Celia Greenstone was hired by the New York Section of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) to serve as assistant immigrant arrival agent at Ellis Island. Ms. Greenspan was urgently needed there. Between 1892 and 1924, more than 15,000,000 immigrants – ost of them from Eastern […]

After Israeli forces liberated the remainder of Judea in the miraculous Six-Day War, Yochanan Ben Yaakov was part of a group of Jews who explored the south Hebron hills in southern Judea to search for traces of their Jewish past. They found Jewish synagogues in Eshtemoa, Yatta, and Carmel. Indeed, in Yatta, one of the […]