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"Gruninger paid a high price for the choice he made. In the struggle between his sense of duty as a police officer, and dedication to the concepts of humanity, the latter triumphed," states Yad Vashem.

This is not history to be relegated to the past and forgotten.

Noah tried to found a Jewish state at Grand Island in the Niagara River, to be called Ararat.

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In 1946, Lansky ordered his men to help bring Holocaust survivors to Eretz Yisrael and facilitate the establishment of the Jewish state.

If his writings did little to sway the masses, it was his life that acted as the heady perfume. His very existence presented an alternative – a highly seductive alternative – to the ghetto Jew.

Judaica was everywhere: crammed on glass shelves, teetering atop narrow display cases, peeking from behind cardboard boxes in the store’s sprawling interior.

The dispute evolved into a fierce fight between chassidim defending the Shapiros and mitnagdim defending the Romm printers.

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Hermann Karl Hesse (1877-1962), a Nobel Prize-winning German novelist and poet, is best known for his inspired explorations of self-understanding, spiritual realization, and psychology,...

Markus downplayed the seriousness of his actions, saying in a talkRADIO interview that people shouldn't watch his videos if they are offended.

Considering his goal, it is not surprising that alongside the Vilna Gaon and Shadal, we find references by the author to non-Rabbinic sources, such as Julius Fürst, Moses Mendelsson, and Naphtali Hirz Wessely.

After Rabbeinu sadly listened to them, he asked me for a piece of paper, and wrote a pleasantly-worded protest letter with candid reproach to Mr. Jabotinsky, and asked me to give it to him.

It is undisputed that, unlike Leeser, Wise was an academic and rabbinical fraud.

After many long hours on the computer and countless cross-country phone calls and lots of siyatta d’Shmaya, year after year, at the last minute, we find somewhere to go.

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This Jew owned several classic and obscure anti-Semitic works, including a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion...

Efforts quickly turned to providing humanitarian relief to quake victims in what is considered the first internationally-organized relief campaign.

Young Israel Beth El is more than a beautiful synagogue with unique and unified davening, it is a congregation with a soul.

Asked if he ever thought of quitting, Rabbi Rosenshein said, “Never. You don’t live without it.”

He also knew that many Jews faced a perilous future in mainland Europe and would benefit from moving to the safe shores of Ireland.

Among your members in the Knesset are people from whom nothing is withheld and who, in their empty speech, are capable of achieving the most difficult assignments.

By the time the Jewish Museum of the History of Polish Jews was opened across from the monument in 2013, the memorial had lost all its visual prominence and blended into the surrounding landscape.

With this invention, writer’s cramp and constant worry about smudged ink and illegible penmanship began to wane. Yiddish typewriters ushered in a new and much easier way of life.

The Apollo 11 astronauts were flying into uncharted territory. All precautions were taken, but the slightest mishap could have taken their lives.

The Jewish community of Merzig was old but small.

The Second Maccabiah (Jewish Olympic) Games, which were held in Tel Aviv in April 1935, included flying competitions, and a group of Jewish fliers arrived from Germany with two German-built gliders.

Rabbi Porush, with tears streaming down his face and onto Rabin’s jacket, cried out, “Yitzchak, Yitzchak! Do you want to abandon Mama Rachel?!”

Amidst this most dramatic period of our 2,000 year exile, this medieval Ashkenazic Jew has somehow retained his sense of purpose, his own internal value, and his unbreakable bond.

In October 1941, the Nazis halted all immigration from Europe. The last refugee boat arrived in Sosua (which by now had 500 immigrants) on December 8, 1941 – a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.