History
From nation-building to posting: How Jewish activism lost its way - opinion
As the war fades from public attention, the silence of influencer-driven Jewish activism reveals a deeper problem: advocacy shaped by visibility and incentives cannot endure without an audience.
How a machzor survived over six centuries and Nazi attacks to make it to Israel
This month in Jewish history: The first permanent government of Israel
From Der Judenstaat to modern Israel: Herzl’s vision in today’s world - opinion
Nazi killer in infamous ‘Last Jew in Vinnitsa’ picture finally identified using AI
Jakobus Onnen, a teacher from the town of Tichelwarf, was identified as the Nazi gunman in the 1941 photograph titled ‘The Last Jew in Vinnitsa.’
Abba Hillel Silver: The American Zionist leader who brought Israel into being
We have the state, but could it have been different if Abba Hillel Silver’s ideas had been embraced?
Israeli Air Force hero Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky passes away at 104
Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky will be laid to rest, with a full military ceremony, on Monday at 2:30 PM at the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery in Tel Aviv.
Parashat Vayetze: 'Wise people, be careful with your words’
If we were truly aware of the power embedded in our words, in casual conversation, in a sentence spoken in anger or sarcasm, we would be far more cautious.
Defense Minister Israel Katz is a strategic liability that Israel cannot afford - opinion
Israel's defense minister does not have the skills that his job demands. The kind of strategizing that Ben-Gurion, Eshkol, and Arens did in their jobs is beyond Katz’s abilities
Steinmeier becomes first German head of state to visit Guernica since 1937 Nazi bombing
The German president laid a wreath at a cemetery housing a mausoleum built in 1973 for hundreds of victims of the bombings.
Drafts of Ben-Gurion's 'Revolution of the Spirit' speech unveiled in honor of first PM's death
“This document is an invitation to rethink ‘the day after’ and what is required of us in our own day,” Director General of the Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute, Eitan Donitz, said.
AI opens vast trove of medieval Jewish records from the Cairo Geniza
The Cairo Geniza, the biggest collection of medieval Jewish documents in the world, has been the object of countless hours of study by scholars for more than a century.
After being lost for centuries, Spanish gold coin from 1609 breaks European auction record
The unique 339-gram piece sold for 2,817,500 Swiss francs ($3.49 million).
Rare prehistoric Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore in South Carolina
A rare federally protected Atlantic sturgeon fish found in Hilton Head, South Carolina, is drawing attention from marine experts.
