Exhibit Highlights Zionism’s German Roots
Herzl was one of the most important figures in the Zionist movement, but he was far from the first to call for a Jewish homeland.
Herzl was one of the most important figures in the Zionist movement, but he was far from the first to call for a Jewish homeland.
Today there are myriad ways to support Israel. Here are ten ways to get started.
There is no reason for the Jewish community to be monolithic in our opinions.
Ofer Zalzberg, senior analyst with the Middle East Program of the International Crisis Group, on how the violence began and what can be done to quell it.
Is there something about religion that is inherently violent, or is it a myth that religion leads to violence? And since much of the contemporary religious violence in the news is connected to Islam, is this a Muslim problem—or a broader human one? We posed these questions to a wide-ranging group of thinkers.
Two years ago Jake Witzenfeld, a new Jewish Tel Aviv transplant from England, discovered Qambuta Productions—a fresh, subversive and artistic Palestinian voice on YouTube that uses parody to illustrate social and political issues in the Arab community.
Professor Daniel Schwartz on how fears of Jewish disloyalty fueled deportations and massacres in Eastern Europe during and after the war, how the Jewish Legion helped conquer Ottoman Palestine for the British, and why World War I was a turning point for European Jewry.
“I hope to inspire quite a lot of people, because I have not only one but a number of legacies
with Robert Aumann, Theodore Bikel, Leon Fleisher, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jerome Groopman, Ruth Gruber, Fanya Heller, Madeleine Kunin, Walter Laqueur,
by Anna Isaacs Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a story about the popularity of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement
HER FAMILY OWNED THE BUILDING. THE NAZIS TOOK IT AWAY. NOW SHE WANTED JUSTICE.
by Elli Fischer Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the British military and Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, all played a