History
On This Day: Remembering the September 11 terror attacks in New York, 25 years later
The attacks sparked the NATO-allied US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and began the global war on terror.
Switzerland releases digital files on Josef Mengele to public with 'as little as possible' redacted
Secret 1993 Peres-Hussein meeting helped pave way for Israel-Jordan peace, revealed documents show
Hangzhou offers a glimpse of China’s journey from silk to silicon
Titanic survivor’s signed life jacket sells for over $900,000
Laura Mabel Francatelli was on Titanic’s lifeboat No. 1, with only eleven other passengers, despite the small vessel's 40-person capacity.
Music to our ears, and hearts: How music shaped Israel’s identity over 78 years
The 1967 Six Day War changed everything, as this then-fledgling country, bursting with self-confidence, began to open up to the Western world.
Grapevine: Remembrance, appreciation
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
British professor uncovers location of Shakespeare’s London home using previously unknown documents
Munro’s find is historically significant, painting a very different picture of where Shakespeare may have spent time in his later years then what was originally thought.
When refusal becomes a strategy - opinion
The Islamic Republic isn’t serious when it says it won’t participate in the US talks in Pakistan. Rather, it is leveraging refusal as a strategy
Countries you didn’t know are named after people
Who is the hero Bolivia is named after, after whom Saudi Arabia is named, and who was Rus from whom Russia was born? A few examples of countries named after historical figures.
Israel at 78: An appropriate birthday gift - opinion
Nations, like individuals, are not defined by how they celebrate their birthdays, but by how they respond to the clarity those moments provide.
Herzl, Ahad Ha’am, and the Jewish question we still haven’t answered
The unfinished synthesis between sovereignty and civilization has now matured into something more dangerous than exile: a crisis of intelligibility.
Steeped in history, Pensacola Jews celebrate the 150th anniversary of Florida’s oldest synagogue
In 1876, when Pensacola’s Temple Beth El was founded, Florida had 200,000 inhabitants, just 2,000 of them Jews.
What I discovered about Herzl’s room in Basel
When we celebrate Independence Day, it is easy to forget that the idea of the Jewish State was not born in the desert or in the Middle East, but in Basel, on the cool banks of the Rhine River.
