Click Here to Read: Pope Meets a Jewish Link to His Boyhood By Alessandra Stanley in The New York Times on March 13, 2000.
Pope John Paul II Image: Zkoty1953 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Category: History
Jerusalem on the Rhine
Click Here to Read: Jerusalem on the Rhine:: Preserving the history of three German cities that loom large in Jewish history: Speyer, Worms, and Mainz by Elisabeth Becker on the Tablet website on December 06, 2021.
Synagogue in Worms (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany).Image: Pancho Suenderhauf Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
The ‘organized escape’ of psychoanalysts from Austria during Nazi occupation
This Mysterious Ancient Civilization’s DNA Was Not What We Thought it Was
Click Here to Read: This Mysterious Ancient Civilization’s DNA Was Not What We Thought it Was: The origins of the ancient Etruscans had remained an unsolved mystery hidden in their DNA — until now By Elizabeth Rayne on the SyFy website on November 27, 2021.
Etruscan sarcophagus from Cerveteri c. 520 BCE. Terra cotta, length 2 m. Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome. Image: Frank Axelsson Piblic Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Oldest-known fossils of mysterious human lineage uncovered in Siberian cave
From Beirut to Brooklyn
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.
Exile, Prejudice, Victory: A Jewish Thanksgiving Story From the New World
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.
