History
Avner Bar Hama: An artist with a soul
Reading some of the comments on his book’s inside cover, I began to realize how singular a man he is.
The history of MU Online: From the cybercafé boom to the rebirth on private servers
This week in Jewish history: High Holy Days, return of Yemeni Jews, Second Intifada
After years of war, world’s oldest synagogue paintings are revealed as intact in Damascus
Rosh Hashanah: State of God in our world, 2025
On Rosh Hashanah, we pray that God will enter our world and make His presence unmistakable – for those who strive to push Him away, and for those who have yet to open their eyes to Him.
Scientists identify oldest large dinosaur predator from Welsh fossil found 125 years ago - study
Newtonsaurus cambrensis is very large, larger than most, if not all, contemporary predators. For a therapod dinosaur from the Triassic era to be so large is essentially unprecedented.
A football-sized gold nugget stolen from one of France's most famous museums
On Sept 16 cleaning staff found the geology and mineralogy gallery breached. It is now closed. Investigators say the gang used angle grinders and a blowtorch to cut through armored glass.
Stories about growth and resilience in St. Louis neighborhoods
One man, one bank, and the making of modern Israel
At 95, banker, diplomat, and statesman Zalman Shoval reflects on his journey and Israel’s transformation.
Sparta and Athens: History's wartime lessons for a modern-day Israel - analysis
As Netanyahu evokes "super-Sparta," Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states devastated after decades of war.
Robert Jay Lifton, pioneering scholar of Nazi doctors and Jewish memory, dies at 99
Robert Jay Lifton, whose work on genocide psychology reshaped Holocaust studies and Jewish thought for decades, died at his home in Massachusetts at 99.
Weleda collaborated with the Nazis: Frost bite cream may have been used in Dachau SS experiments
German historian Anne Sudrow published a study that described close personal relationships between Weleda and the SS and ties among Anthroposophists, Demeter Agriculture, and the SS.
Thousands of Middle East Jewish refugees lost est. $263 billion in assets, researchers show UNHRC
The report details how systematic state oppression, pogroms, and expulsions depopulated the nearly one million Jews of the Middle East.
The long arc of Israeli protests: A nation’s conscience or Achilles’ heel? - analysis
Protests have long been a defining feature of Israel’s democracy – they give voice to anguish, mobilize citizens, and hold leaders to account. But they are not inherently virtuous.
![STUDENTS PROTEST outside the Education Ministry in Tel Aviv, Sept. 1, the first day of school. Their banner reads, ‘Without the hostages, there is no learning [school].’](https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_194,w_290/679523 "STUDENTS PROTEST outside the Education Ministry in Tel Aviv, Sept. 1, the first day of school. Their banner reads, ‘Without the hostages, there is no learning [school].’")
On this Day: 53 years since the Munich massacre
On this day in 1972, eight Palestinian terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
