Big splash at Caesarea Harbor with new Crusader market, upcoming visitor’s center
New promenade walls and a 700-year-old Crusader market at the Caesarea Harbor were unveiled on June 10 in Caesarea National Park in the presence of Baroness Ariane de Rothschild, and various representatives from funding...
January 20, 1496: Decree of Expulsion Issued for Portuguese Jews
Following the death of King Joao of Portugal in 1494, his son King Manuel I ascended the throne. When his legitimacy as heir to the throne was challenged, Manuel wished to marry Princess Isabel...
The Hidden History of Shanghai’s Jewish Quarter
It’s common knowledge that as Hitler’s bid to rid the world of Jews escalated, so did the world’s refusal to let them in. What’s not well known is that when those borders, ports, doors, windows,...
80 years later, rare photos reveal attempt to envision Babi Yar massacre
Eighty years after the Babi Yar massacre, rare images that tell the story of the Soviet-era struggle to commemorate the atrocity have been released for the first time by the National Library of Israel’s Central Archives for...
KKL-JNF releases never-before-seen photos of Jerusalem
In honor of the 54th anniversary of Israel’s liberation of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) has released four photos from the days of the British Mandate before the...
The Dramatic Forced Departure of Jews to Morocco after the Reconquista in Spain
The inhuman expulsion of Spanish Jews in 1492 by Catholics
It must be made clear from the start that Judaism as a religion predates Christianity in the Iberian peninsula and that parctically the majority of...
November 20, 1945: Nuremberg Trials Begin
On this day in 1945, 24 high-ranking Nazis go on trial before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II.The Nuremberg Trials...
September 25th, 1942: Uncle Misha’s Partisans
Anticipating the liquidation of their ghetto in Korets, Ukraine, which had already suffered the execution of 2,000, sixteen Jews led by Moshe Gildenman and his son Simkha escaped to the woods on this date...
Archaeologists unearth crate of historic Judaica items under synagogue in Poland
A wooden crate filled with Judaica items was discovered during an archaeological excavation in a synagogue in Małopolska, Poland, reported The Jewish Chronicle.
Archaeologists were digging a small test hole at the Old Synagogue in Wieliczka when...
March 17, 1992: Attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires
The attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was a suicide bombing attack on the building of the Israeli embassy of Argentina, located in Buenos Aires, which was carried out on 17 March...