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The Good Samaritan Inn

So many times, on our way back to Jerusalem after spending a few days at the Dead Sea or in Eilat, we passed the sign directing travelers to the Good Samaritan Inn and Mosaic...
Hundreds gather at a March 8, 2018 ceremony at Warszawa Gdanska Railway Station to commemorate the antisemitic campaign and purge in Poland in 1968. Photo by Darek Warczakoski/Shutterstock. | Darek Warczakoski/Shutterstock

Project launched in London on 1968 Polish expulsion of Jews

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“Forgotten Exodus,” a multimedia initiative to collect and share testimonies of Jewish Poles forced to flee the country in 1968, launched last month in London. This history is generally overlooked, according to Daniel Schatz, a visiting researcher...
Lydia Marner with the 3,000-year-old Egyptian figurine she found on the beach. Photo by Idan Horen/Israel Antiquities Authority via TPS.

Woman on Israeli beach finds 3,000-year-old figurine

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A woman strolling on Israel’s Palmachim Beach south of Tel Aviv found a 3,000-year-old figurine of an Egyptian goddess, which she turned over to archaeologists at the Israel Antiquities Authority. Lydia Marner, 74, a resident...
Claude Lanzmanns audio archive, Jewish Museum Berlin. Photo by Roman März.

Holocaust audio archive at Jewish Museum Berlin now UNESCO ‘World Heritage’

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As of this month, the Jewish Museum Berlin is home to a collection of objects that is listed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memory of the World Register. The original 16mm and restored...
Torah scroll. Credit: Ungvar/Shutterstock.

Holocaust survivors to rewrite recently discovered Torah scroll

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The Survivor Torah Project, an effort to restore a Torah scroll hidden from the Nazis, has now reached Toronto, Canada. The scroll was found recently after being hidden for 75 years, given for safekeeping by a...
IMAGE CAPTION:These Jewish coffins from the Roman Era were found in Mashhad in the Galilee. Photo by Nir Distelfeld/Israel Antiquities Authority.

Authorities probing theft find Roman-era burial cave

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Coffins dating back to a Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire were recently uncovered in the Galilee of Israel by authorities investigating the theft of ancient artifacts. The operation took place in Mashhad, near Nazareth,...
The Polish flag with Warsaw in the background. Credit: Velishchuk Yevhen/Shutterstock.

Jewish life in Polish capital thriving 80 years after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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On the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jewish life is thriving in the capital city, reports Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler, director of Chabad of Poland. He and his brother, Rabbi Mayer Stambler, arrived in...
Codex Sassoon sells for $33.5 million, a record for a book sold at auction, at Sotheby's in New York on May 17, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Sotheby's.

Tel Aviv ANU–Museum of the Jewish People buys Codex Sassoon for $33.5 million

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First, there was the possibility that Renaissance man par excellence Leonardo da Vinci was Jewish. Now, the oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, Codex Sassoon, which dates to around the year 900, beat da Vinci’s Codex Leicester as the...
The inscription carrying the financial record. Photo by Eliyahu Yanai/City of David.

2,000-year-old receipt uncovered on Pilgrimage Road in Jerusalem

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Someone forgot his receipt. A financial record from two millennia ago was uncovered on what was Jerusalem’s main thoroughfare during the Second Temple period, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. The inscription on the small stone...
The curse tablet found on Mount Ebal. Photo by Jaroslav Valach.

Scholars expound on Mount Ebal curse tablet with oldest Hebrew text

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A lead tablet found at a site where millions of Jews and Christians believe the Israelite leader Joshua built an altar contains the oldest Hebrew text ever found in the Land of Israel as...