1+ week, 3+ day ago   (562+ words) The previously unknown author of a postcard sent to Israeli songwriter Naomi Shemer praising her song Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold) has been revealed to be Six-Day War veteran Aharon Bar-Oz, the National Library of Israel announced on Sunday....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1686+ words) For Adrianna Turk, 74, the past was long defined by a profound, unyielding silence. Growing up, family history was not discussed; it was a blank space, a closed door behind which lay the devastating wreckage of the Holocaust. Her father, originally…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (1081+ words) I’m standing with my husband at the port in Thessaloniki, a vital commercial hub on the Aegean Sea connecting Southern Europe with the Balkans. I’m thinking of the Jewish stevedores who once worked these docks, and of those who later…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago   (864+ words) There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics. Thus posited Mark Twain, who attributed the origin of that scathing observation to 19th-century Jewish British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. The saying suggests that attempting to encapsulate some event or…...