After 144 years, Israel's Health Ministry to move from Jerusalem’s Ottoman-era health building
Its history spans the late Ottoman Empire, in which the Turks ruled Jerusalem from 1516 until 1917, to the British Mandate, to the State of Israel.
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Josephine Baker: Dancer, spy, and champion against racism and antisemitism
A forgotten voice from 1391: 'Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings' - book review
How a machzor survived over six centuries and Nazi attacks to make it to Israel
France returns royal skull of King Toera, two others to Madagascar
France has sought to confront its colonial past by returning artifacts and human remains from its museums to their countries of origin.
This week in Jewish history: 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' published
A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.
Fall of the Roman Empire: Inside Abramovich’s enforced sale of Chelsea FC
Placed under sanctions by the UK government because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Jewish magnate was forced to sell the soccer club he owned for nearly 20 years.
M15 suspected Rolex founder of being Nazi spy - Telegraph
The British consul in Geneva would go on to report that Wilsdorf was “well known for his strong Nazi sympathies.”
'The Last Baker of Vienna': A novel on displaced Jews in post-WWII Europe - review
Chana, the heroine of The Lost Baker of Vienna, gives voice to author Sharon Kurtzman’s feminist subtext.
Tisha B’Av in Jerusalem: Reflections on loss, return, and Zionism
Tisha B’Av was not a figment of my imagination; it provided, annually, a poignancy in time which lifted us from the ruins of the past and deposited us in a new Israel.
Gaza Disengagement, revisited: Sharon’s gamble, Israel’s price
Disengagement was sold not just as a diplomatic move, but as a security one. Pulling out of Gaza, Ariel Sharon argued, would save lives.
The youth of Gush Katif: The trauma, struggles of the once-teens of Israel's Gaza settlements
How a few teens dealt with the trauma of the expulsion, and where are they today?
Gaza Disengagement twenty years later: A summer of changes and turbulence
Who knew then that 20 years later, Iran would be sending massive rockets, and Houthis would be blowing up ships?
It began in Neveh Dekalim: How the Gaza Disengagement led to judicial reform
For Religious Zionists, who link Torah, people, and land, the state’s bulldozers felt like a theological betrayal.
