August 14, 1889: 130 Russian Jewish families arrived in Argentina on the S.S. Weser...
On this date in 1889, 130 Russian Jewish families arrived in Argentina on the S.S. Weser and formed the settlement of Moisés Ville, named for Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Their presence and early rough-going...
August 13, 1961: Construction Begins on Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin....
August 13, 2008: Hugo Chavez met with the WJC, LAJC, and Venezuelan Jewish leaders...
Venezuela's revolutionary president, Hugo Chavez, met with the head of the World Jewish Congress, the Latin American Jewish Congress, and Venezuelan Jewish leaders in Caracas on this date in 2008.
Also in attendance was Argentina's...
August 11, 1929: The creation of the Jewish Agency for Israel as we know...
The Jewish Agency was established by the World Zionist Organization at the 16th Zionist Congress, on August 11, 1929, as a partnership between the WZO and “non-Zionist” Jewish leaders, among them such luminaries as...
August 6, 1945: The first nuclear attack in history took place
The first nuclear attack in history took place on this date in 1945 when the city of Hiroshima was largely destroyed by a single bomb dropped by an American B-29. Three days later, the...
Sephardi legacy to be newly emphasized in Murcia region of southern Spain
The autonomous region of Murcia in southeast Spain recently signed a collaboration agreement with the Hispanic Jewish Foundation, aiming at showcasing the region’s longtime Sephardi legacy.
David Hatchwell , president of the Hispanic Jewish Foundation,...
Israeli archaeologists unearth 1,300-year-old church near Jesus’ Mount of Transfiguration
Israeli archaeologists have announced that they have unearthed a 1,300-year-old Byzantine-era church in the Lower Galilee in the village of Kfar Kama near Mount Tabor, which Christians believe is the Mount of Transfiguration where...
Holocaust center to present Tisha B’Av film screening, survivor interview
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich., will hold a virtual event and film screening of the documentary “Hidden” on July 30, along with an interview with Holocaust survivor Miriam Ferber.
The event is timed...
Storage center in Jerusalem, 2,700 years old, dates from Kingdom of Judah
In excavations in Jerusalem near the U.S. embassy conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority, more than 120 of some of the largest and most important collections of seal impressions stamped on jars were discovered,...
July 22, 1946: The bombing of The King David Hotel
On July 22, 1946, members of the Irgun Jewish underground entered the King David Hotel in Jerusalem which housed on its southern side the headquarters of the British in Mandatory Palestine. Disguised as Sudanese...