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Diaspora
Meet the doctor who helped Herzl get to the podium in time to open the Fourth Zionist Congress in London.
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Imre Lichtenfeld developed Krav Maga as a method of defensive street fighting against anti-Semitic attacks in the city formerly known as Pressburg.
Land of Israel
Discovered in the National Library archives, Himmler’s message to the Mufti decried the “Jewish invaders”, while sending “warm wishes for your continued struggle…”
Rare pictures: This is what Jerusalem looked like 150 years ago
How did rare photographs of Polish Jews end up in a French soldier’s photo album?
Postcards and coded letters sent from a concentration camp written in urine reveal the secret experiments performed on human subjects.
When the Gestapo knocked on 12-year-old Lilli Tauber’s door in November of 1938, her life was forever changed.
What was revealed when Western forces finally captured one of the major Nazi concentration camps? A rare document recently discovered at the National Library of Israel holds the answers.
Judaism
With very few fresh ingredients at their disposal, the Jews created a plethora of dishes that took full advantage of the limited components that were available.
Read the story of how an international Jewish superstar came to entertain shell-shocked Israeli troops during the Yom Kippur War
Meet Leila and Lamia Jamal, the nearly identical sisters who took Cairo – and later, the rest of the world – by storm with their exhilarating belly dancing routines.
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