History

Before lecturing Israel, Britain should remember its record on Jewish refugees - opinion

A country whose government restricted the escape of persecuted Jews while the Nazi killing machine was gathering momentum should be extremely cautious before preaching morality to the Jewish state.

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Behind the Premier League’s rivalries and football lies a deep Jewish history that helped shape some of its clubs and communities.

Premier League clubs with strong ties to Jewish history and communities

From biblical times to hair-transplant clinics in Istanbul, people have never truly made peace with baldness — even if baldness itself was never really the problem.

A long history of baldness from the Leviticus to modern Istanbul

WEIMAR GERMANY: DEATH OF A DEMOCRACY by Victor Sebestyen

'Death of a Democracy': Exploring the rise and fall of Weimar Germany - review


Entebbe daze

Having lived in Israel, now for several decades, I’ve come to realize that my personal history and Israel’s modern history are inextricably intertwined.

Captives returning after the Entebbe Operation.

America at 250: Why Washington’s promise to US Jews still matters - opinion

George Washington promised that this Republic would “give to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.” May we prove worthy of that promise for the next 250 years.

An illustrative image of George Washington's head on Mount Rushmore.

America at 250: Fighting antisemitism begins with reclaiming America's Jewish story - opinion

The fight against antisemitism begins with historical truth and remembering the vital role Jews played in building America.

Man holding an American flag.

Games of chance and society in the Middle East

A historical look at how chance-based games shaped culture, law, and society in the Middle East.

Was Netanyahu chosen by God, or judged too harshly by man? - opinion

There was a young man who was chosen. He did not choose himself. In fact, he had no plans to enter politics and no ambition to become prime minister. Yet God often chooses people who never expect it.

Israeli cabinet minister and former military chief Gadi Eisenkot is consoled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he attends the funeral of his son Gal Meir Eisenkot, 25, an Israeli solider, who was killed in northern Gaza during the ground operation by Israel's military in Gaza.

Outcry in Germany over controversial plans to demolish Nazi bunker for luxury apartment building

The bunker is part of a subterranean bunker complex constructed over a period of ten years, and which served as the headquarters of the Nazi regime until the last week of World War II in Europe.

Kai Wegner (L,CDU), Governing Mayor of Berlin, Manja Schreiner (C,CDU), Senator for Mobility, Transport, and Christian Gaebler (L,SPD), Senator for Urban Development, view a public housing construction project

Breaking the individual to break the collective - opinion

Occupation does not begin at a border. It begins inside the human mind. That is why sexual violence has remained such an effective weapon across centuries.

 Demonstrators hold signs against what they describe as international silence over sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli women during the attack by Hamas on southern Israel on October 7, at a protest in Jerusalem, November 27, 2023.

The Somme, 110 years on: The Jewish soldiers who fought and died

The Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest and most infamous battles in history, was intended to break the German lines and bring World War I closer to an Allied victory.

British infantry soldiers running out of their trenches at the signal to assault  the Somme, France, 1916.

Sorin Hershko, soldier most severely wounded in Entebbe, honored on operation's 50th anniversary

The recognition was awarded by the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, whose chairman is Chemi Peres, son of former prime minister Shimon Peres.

An Israeli hostage is greeted on her return to Israel after Operation Entebbe on 3rd July 1976, in which, Israeli special forces rescued 100 hostages held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine following their hijack of Air France Flight 139.

On this day: Bodies of Gil-Ad Shaer, Naftali Frenkel, and Eyal Yifrah found in West Bank

The murder of the three teenagers led to the IDF’s invasion of Gaza the next week, launching the 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge.

Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel (L-R).