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The Jewish world’s dangerous amnesia about Mizrahi history

Our history under Islamic rule exposes the moral bankruptcy of anti-Zionism and the fantasy that Jews can survive without sovereignty ...
Chen’s son Sagui spent 498 days in captivity in Gaza after he was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz, a kibbutz in southern Israel, ...
(RNS) — Despite both having a history of persecution, the groups’ alliance has repeatedly been tested.
That instinct is often misunderstood as emotional or impulsive. It is neither. It reflects a way of understanding Jewish life shaped by a long memory of responsibility, one that for some has receded ...
Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to call is Jonathan Sarna. Jews and the Civil War? Sarna knows where the bodies are buried. Need a quote about Jews and bagels?
A new effort in Congress could lead to the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia becoming part of the Smithsonian — the institution behind many of the museums that line ...
As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...