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Recognition in their own countries has been a long time in coming for the nearly 1,500 Americans and Canadians who volunteered in Israel’s…

The Interior Ministry’s Population, Immigration and Borders Authority (PIBA) released new regulations on Monday for the handling of…

‘It is a real privilege to live in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City,” says Varda Ruth Frankel, a 22-year resident of the Jewish Quarter. “This…

Dr. Joshua Cohen, the doctor aboard the Exodus – the legendary Aliya Bet ship that attempted to bring Holocaust survivors from war-torn Europe to…

From Philadelphia to IsraelJNF America's Chai Fund Mission Connects with IsraelThe Chai Fund Mission consists of about eighty men from Philadelphia,…

Courtesy of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Thursday Israel will again be the target of a jihadist-leftist propaganda assault. A…

One sunny Friday afternoon in February 1947, 20-year-old Murray Greenfield went home and – without being asked – scrubbed the kitchen floor. “I…

Jews in Nazi BerlinEdited by Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon and Chana Schuetz | The University of Chicago Press | 356 pages | $40In his foreword to this…

ewish Brigade veterans and members of the public packed a Tel Aviv University auditorium on Friday, February 19, for a special screening of Chuck…

A Voice CalledBy Yossi KatzGefen | 272 pages | $15Philadelphia-born Yossi Katz made aliya in 1978. After spending 30 years as a Jewish educator, he…

Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise and a Heroic Escape During World War IIBy Ram OrenDoubleday308 pages$24.95Using a fictional framework to explore…

The passing of Exodus captain Yitzhak "Ike" Aronowicz last Wednesday marks the end of an era and a tribute to the founding of the…

'Instead of taking part in the war effort against the Nazis by using the Patria ship as a troop carrier, the British thought it more important to…

IN THE early 1970s, the US table tennis team, while in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship, received an invitation to visit China.…

'Forsake me not in my old age" - the prayer recited several times during the Yom Kippur services - used to have much more significance than it does…

Fifty donors from the UK branch of the Tel Aviv Foundation have been touring Israel's cultural capital this week, to celebrate the city's…

n JERUSALEM HAS lost one of its most colorful and popular personalities with the recent passing of Danny Angel, just three months short of his 90th…

Every day I walk my son to school through a shortcut that takes us from Rehov Bialik to Kikar Denya in the heart of Jerusalem's Beit Hakerem…

It is inevitable that within minutes of leaving Krakow International Airport, your taxi driver will be either cheering or cursing the recent property…

Extract from an article in Issue 12, September 29, 2008 of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report click here. A veteran Israeli…