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The Damascus Blood Libel: Part 2
The Damascus Blood Libel: Part 2
A Lesson For the Children: Summary of Part 1: The monk Tomaso disappeared in the Jewish section of Damascus, and the Jews were accused of killing him in order to use...
Apr 12, 2007
By Rabbi Yikhat Rozen
Rooted: Our Visit to Lithuania and Latvia
Rooted: Our Visit to Lithuania and Latvia
My grandfather lived in Rezekne, Latvia until he was a teenager, and my wife’s grandfather lived as a boy in Kovno, Lithuania, both countries were a part of the Russian Empire....
Apr 12, 2007
By Jonathan Dietz
The Damascus Blood Libel: Part 1
The Damascus Blood Libel: Part 1
A Lesson For the Children: It all started one winter day in the city of Damascus about 160 years ago. An Italian monk, Badro Tomaso, came to the Jewish market to...
Mar 28, 2007
By Rabbi Yikhat Rozen
The Young Immigrants from Syria
The Young Immigrants from Syria
Land of My Birth – At the end of the First World War (1918), the Zionist movement began to awaken in Damascus. The participants were Hebrew activists who had been expelled from...
Mar 22, 2007
By Zev Wallack
Establishing the Sanhedrin in Tzefat
Establishing the Sanhedrin in Tzefat
Land of My Birth – The sixteenth century was the golden era of Tzefat. At the time, this city in the Galil was the home of the majority and the most...
Mar 8, 2007
By Zev Wallack
The Defense of Tirat Tzvi
The Defense of Tirat Tzvi
Land of My Birth – On this very date, the sixth of Adar (Adar I in that year), the great battle was held over the isolated kibbutz, Tirat Tzvi, in the...
Feb 22, 2007
By Zev Wallack
Forgotten Heritage
Forgotten Heritage
The Ten Commandments in the façade of a supermarket, a Star of David above the entrance of a Baptist church, a Hebrew date in the cornerstone of an apartment building. My...
Dec 7, 2006
By Julian Voloj
In All the Dark Places
In All the Dark Places
From the pages of the OU’s JEWISH ACTION magazine (Summer 5766/2006) Listen to Steve Savitsky’s conversation with the converts themselves, on Around the Dining Room Table. It’s said that the “truth...
Aug 2, 2006
By Yitta Halberstam

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