64.6 F
San Diego
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Home Tags History

Tag: History

Chagall Windows depicting the tribes of Zebulon to Joseph above the bima in the Abbell Synagogue. Photo by Ariella Green/all rights reserved to Hadassah.

Magnificent Chagall Windows mark 60 years in Jerusalem

0
When Marc Chagall debuted a series of biblically inspired stained-glass windows at the Louvre in Paris and then at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1961, these shows were only stopovers before...
Jews pray at the grave of Rabbi Isaac Luria Ashkenazi in Tzfat, July 2006. Photo by Haim Azulay/Flash90.

500-year-old letter offers rare look into the life of a legendary Kabbalist

0
The National Library of Israel is making available to the public for the first time a 500-year-old letter shedding light on the life of one of the most influential kabbalists in Jewish history. The letter,...
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion speaking in the Knesset on Jan, 1, 1957. Credit: National Photo Archive via Wikimedia Commons.

Historic scroll found at Ben-Gurion House ‘shines with the Zionist story’

0
A scroll presented to Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, during a tree-planting ceremony in 1949 was recently found at Ben-Gurion House in Tel Aviv. The scroll was presented to Ben-Gurion by students at the...
This rare stone toilet is 2,700 years old and was most likely used by one of the dignitaries of ancient Jerusalem. Photo by Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority.

Toilet dig reveals the dirty secrets of Jerusalem’s wealthiest ancients

0
An article in October reported on a rare 2,700-year-old bathroom discovered by archeologists in the garden of a seventh-century BCE royal estate on what is now the Armon Hanatziv promenade in Jerusalem. At that time, only the...

Magdala Stone and other rare artifacts on view in Galilee

0
An oil lamp bearing the symbol of the seven-branched menorah; a stone from the Second Temple; inscriptions that incorporate the words “Shalom,” “Shabbat” and the names of the sages Shimon, Jacob and Hoshaya. These...
A 2,000-year-old silver coin found in debris from an excavation in the City of David. The inscription on the coin reads "Shekel Yisrael," and above the chalice are the Hebrew letters "Shin" and "Bet," an acronym for "Shana Bet," or Year Two of the Jewish revolt against Rome. Credit: Eliyahu Yanai/ City of David.

Rare, 2,000-year old silver coin found in the City of David

0
A 2,000-year-old silver coin experts believe may have been minted by a Temple priest was recently found in Jerusalem by an 11-year-old Israeli girl. Liel Krotokop came across the coin while helping sift archaeological debris...
Steel dies used by Nazi Germany to tattoo numbers on Jewish prisoners' arms during the Second World War. Photo: Yehonatan Shaul.

Owner of controversial Nazi tattoo kit to donate it to Holocaust museum

0
The anonymous owner of a tattoo kit said to have been used on prisoners in the Auschwitz death camp informed an Israeli court on Thursday that he plans to donate it to the Haifa...
Joseferreclauzel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Remember the Battle of Lepanto

0
Last week, Oct. 7 to be precise, was the 450th anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto. Why should you give a flying fig? Because it was a pivotal clash in a war that has...
Israeli Mossad agent Yael Man during her operational years. Source: Archive.

Iconic Mossad agent Yael Man dies at 85

0
Famed Mossad agent Yael Man, whose contributions to the intelligence agency made her a national Israeli hero, passed away on Sunday at the age of 85. Man served as an undercover agent in Lebanon, gathering...

My Grandfather’s Controversial Life–or Mate Amargo

0
Eighty years ago, my grandfather wrote an order on August 22, 1941 to send all Jews and half-Jews from the region of Šiauliai to a ghetto in Žagarė, and within a few weeks the 2,000 Jews...