A journey to the biblical Red Sea crossing
Over the years, scholars have proposed possible sites for the crossing, with Dr. Yehoshua Meron concluding that it took place near the shoreline of Nuweiba on the eastern coast of the Sinai Peninsula.
History
Lighting the torch: The survivors at the heart of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony
From Vilna to Eretz Yisrael: One Holocaust survivor's journey to Israel
Letters of love and survival: A Holocaust love story preserved at Yad Vashem
Messages in bottles from WWI Aussie soldiers wash up on Western Australia beach after 107 years
"The bottle is in excellent condition, there is no fading or attachment of sea organisms.".
On This Day: Israel, Jordan sign 1994 peace treaty, ending forty-six years of war
Following Egypt in 1979, Jordan was the second Arab country in the Middle East to sign a peace treaty with Israel.
'Frequencies of Deceit': Propaganda broadcasting in the heyday of the radio age - review
From the previously under-appreciated source of radio broadcasting, Margaret Peacock sheds new light on how and why today’s Middle East has developed.
'The Jewish South': Comfort and discomfort of southern Jewry - review
Most pioneering is her description of the Jews’ participation in the Confederate government and army, pinpointing by name the Jewish “rebels” serving in the army.
This month in Jewish history: Rabin assassination, Tree of Life shooting
A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.
Empress Eugénie's crown found damaged after Louvre Museum robbery
Empress Eugénie’s diamond- and emerald-studded crown, stolen during a daring Louvre heist that stunned France, was found damaged near the museum. Officials vow to restore it and tighten security.
On This Day: IDF soldier fatally shoots Hamas arch-terrorist, Oct. 7 mastermind, Yahya Sinwar
Sources close to the matter told The Jerusalem Post at the time that the operation was not intended to kill Sinwar, implying that soldiers found him through coincidence.
Hidden basement cache reveals 1.5-ton haul of lost yeshiva of the sages of Lublin books in Warsaw
The researchers removed about 40 to 50 sacks—roughly 1.5 tons—from a locked basement near the Nożyk Synagogue.
Photos from 1938 reveal strong clue to Amelia Earhart plane on Nikumaroro island
A fifteen member team from Purdue University and the Archeological Legacy Institute departs november 4 to probe the Taria object believed to be Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E.
Yom Kippur War: How the Book of Isaiah spurred world Jewry to back Israel, refusniks in 1973
The haftarah for Yom Kippur begins with these action-filled words of Isaiah. We must act – we must cut the road through – it is up to us to clear the way for ami – My people – God’s people.
