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Before Borders Existed: Who Actually Built a State

History, when reduced to slogans, becomes a weapon. One of the most common slogans circulating today claims that Israel is an “occupier” because Arabs were numerically dominant in the…

Survivor stories, burial, music, and memory after the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust

On this day in history… January 27, 1945, Soviet troops entered Auschwitz-Birkenau, exposing to the world the full scale of Nazi Germany’s…

The era of bipartisan consensus on Israel is over. For decades, support for the Jewish state of Israel was a pillar of American foreign policy that transcended party lines, a rare point of agreement in an increasingly fractured political…

How African Observational Science Mapped the Heavens Long Before Europe Claimed the Sky

Series Introduction

History is often taught as if astronomy followed a single European arc—from Greek philosophy to Renaissance telescopes to modern…

How a beloved festival performer found himself on the front lines of a new kind of hate

The hot spring conversation seemed innocent enough. After performing at an Oregon music festival five years ago, musician Mikey Pauker was soaking with…

After the Jewish people crossed the Red Sea, Moshe Rabbeinu made a promise to the Jewish people. It is a simple formula that if followed, will bring good health and peace of mind.

He simply told them that if they shall surely listen to the…

Winning Iran means: a new regime in Tehran, and one that is a friend. Not the same regime that is the same committed enemy to us, speaking “peace” for a moment but still plotting to destroy us as soon as it can get away with it, still…

Our flagship Canadian Jewish newspaper the Canadian Jewish News has just dutifully informed us that the Pride Toronto organization has defeated a motion urging Pride Toronto to adopt a pro-Palestinian BDS policy in evaluating sponsorships to…

The seed may be the most miraculous thing in the world.

Small, dry, and easily overlooked, it nevertheless carries within it the full memory of its lineage—encoded history stretching back to the beginning of its line. All of this is held…

The survey “Knowledge about the Holocaust in Brazil – 2025,” commissioned by the Brazilian Israelite Confederation (CONIB), the São Paulo Holocaust Memorial, the Curitiba Holocaust Museum, and StandWithUs Brazil, and conducted by the…