Click Here to Read: From Beirut to Brooklyn: Eliyah Hawila fooled everyone, including his would-be bride and Brooklyn’s tightknit Syrian Jewish community, into believing he was a Jew. Now that the secret is out, the question is: Who is he, really? by Armin Rosen on the Tablet website on
November 29, 2021.
Beirut lebanon Image: DAVID HOLT from London, England Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Exile, Prejudice, Victory: A Jewish Thanksgiving Story From the New World: How a man named Asser Levy turned New Amsterdam into a new Jewish home BY Steve Brodner on the Tablet website on November 26, 2013.
Map of the early Jewish Congregations in the 13 British Colonies in North America. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Was Kant the First “Woke” Philosopher? Kant set us on the path to today’s “woke” ideas by arguing that perceptions are more powerful than reality by Robert Tracinski on the Discourse website on November 18, 2021.
Portrait of Immanuel Kant by Johann Gottlieb Becker, 1768 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Archaeologists Discover ‘Lost,’ 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Sun Temple: Fifth-Dynasty pharaohs built six such structures. Until now, only two had been found by Livia Gershon on the Smithsonian Website on November 17, 2021.
Sun temple of Niuserre, Abu Ghurab, Egypt Image: Roland Unger Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: How Did a 15th-Century Coin Minted Under Henry VII End Up in Newfoundland? Dated to between 1493 and 1499, the silver half-groat is the oldest English coin ever found in Canada by David Kindy on the Smithsonian website on November 12, 2021.
Post-Medieval coin: half sovereign of Henry VIII Image: St. Albans District Council, Julian Watters, 2013-12-17 12:26:35 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: New York Times Report on Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938: A New York Times story from November 10, 1938, that reports on the events of Kristallnacht in Munich and other cities around Germany on the Facing History website.
German citizens look the other way on Nov. 10 1938, the day after Kristallnacht. What they see or don’t want to see are destroyed Jewish shops and houses. Image: Author Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
