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Israel and the Palestinians: History of the conflict explained

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people is one of the longest-running and most violent disputes in the world.

Sparta and Athens: History's wartime lessons for a modern-day Israel

Sparta," Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states devastated after decades of war. On the eve of the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Two-thirds of a 15th-century Portuguese High Holiday prayer book were lost to history. Until now.

The Lisbon Mahzor, which contains Sephardic prayers for the High Holidays, Three Festivals and more, was produced by the ...
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle

It was the wildest scheme in American Jewish history.

Two hundred years ago, on September 15, 1825, a self-governing Jewish colony was ceremonially dedicated on Grand Island in ...
The Forward on MSNOpinion

It was the wildest scheme in American Jewish history. 200 years later, should it be remembered as a failure?

Ararat, a failed Jewish colony founded in New York 200 years ago, is now a footnote in history. But its lessons remain ...

History Today: What are the Oslo Accords that Israel and Palestine signed in 1993?

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat signed the famous ...

NYC schools turn a new page: How Jewish American history is being written into the classroom

New York City has launched a major curriculum shift with Hidden Voices: Jewish Americans in United States History, Volume 1, ...