Click Here to Read: Archaeologists Find Evidence That a Massive Tsunami Hit Ancient Levantine Coast by Isaac Schultz
on the Gizmodo website on December 23, 2020.
Tel Dor, on the Mediterranean coast. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Category: History
Fifty years ago today in Leningrad, a small group of Soviet Jews was tried for attempting a daring escape to Israel.
Click Here to Read: Hijacking History: Fifty years ago today in Leningrad, a small group of Soviet Jews was tried for attempting a daring escape to Israel. Eerily, their story is relevant again—this time, for American Jews by Izabella Tabarovsky on the Tablet website on December 24, 2020.
Jewish Emgiration from the USSR, before and after the First Leningrad Trial. Image: Azk0702 Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
FDR, the Nazis, and the Jews of Morocco
The King of Warsaw
Zionism and Bolshevism
Click Here to Read: Zionism and Bolshevism: In 1917, two answers to Russia’s ‘Jewish Question’ swept west and helped transform the world By Chimen Abramsky on the Tablet website on December 17, 2020.
Illustrated Sunday Herald article by Winston S. Churchill. Image: old Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Beethoven and Freedom
A Hanukkah Tale From Old Russia
Click Here to Read: A Hanukkah Tale From Old Russia: A mysterious czarist soldier tries to persuade his community he’s Jewish by Curt Leviant on the Tablet website on December 16, 2020. Hanukkah menorah, Russia, 1890, brass, National Museum of American Jewish History. Imagea: Wmpearl Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.