Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

Using well-documented facts and contemporary photographs, this timeline chronicles that tragic period in world history ... and promoting hatred against the Jews, becomes one of the official ...

Five thousand years ago, a nomadic monotheist called Abram wandered out of the Sumerian city of Ur and headed to rural Canaan ...

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Jewish men pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site in the Old City of Jerusalem, January 8, 2021, during a 3rd nationawide full lockdown, in an effort to prevent the spread of the ...

As Barack Obama’s presidency comes to an end this week, it is safe to say that his eight years in the Oval Office were historic in the eyes of the Jewish community — whether they supported him ...

The Two-State Solution and elevating Arafat from a terrorist to a politician was an invention of the naïve Israeli left, not a Palestinian idea. But Arafat stayed a terrorist, wanted all of it, and ...

The book Der Judenstaat was published in Vienna by Theodor Herzl, in which he envisaged a Jewish state combining ... The first televised trial in Israeli history began, in which John Demjanjuk ...

The special exhibit at History Museum on the Square builds on research done by Missouri State University professor emeritus ...

This is where I was Bat Mitzvah’d and became entrenched in the Jewish community. Being the only Black family in the synagogue’s history was life changing. Here in Black History Month ...