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Monday, October 02, 2017 The Center for Jewish History's Jewish Problem Posted by Daniel Greenfield The Jewish community was shocked when it learned that David N. Myers, a militant anti-Israel activist, had been quietly put into place as the head of the Center for Jewish History. There was even more shock at the unquestioning support that Myers received from establishment figures at the Center and its constituent organizations like the American Jewish Historical Society. There is a very good reason for that. David N. Myers did not end up in his position by accident. The defenses of his anti-Israel activism...

“The Golden Land” has a lot of historical plot to condense as it chugs through a two-hour rendition of the entire New York Jewish immigrant experience, from the 1880s to the 1940s. In montages and medleys, partly in Yiddish and partly in English, we are transported to Ellis Island, the Lower East Side, the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, union protests, two world wars, the Holocaust, the migration to Harlem, an adaptation of “King Lear,” a confrontation with Ivy League admissions quotas and the founding of a Jewish state. But this show isn’t really about individuals, anyway. As evidenced by Roger...

Before the independence of Pakistan from British ruler at sub continent there is majority of Jewish community who lived here. Jewish community lived in Karachi and Peshawar. Jewish community lived peacefully in Pakistan. But after the creation of Islamic republic of Pakistan Jewish community worried from Muslim fundamentalist Jewish community leave Pakistan and minority of Jew live in Pakistan. Jews Community who’s basically belong from bani Israel, Now a day all around the world people particularly Muslim community Hate Jews people. Historically one of the desired nations of the world. Jews one of the first nation who received meal from...

The reign of Alexander and his successors: Antiochus rifles and profanes the temple of God: and persecutes unto death all that will not forsake the law of God, and the religion of their fathers. [1] Now it came to pass, after that Alexander the son of Philip the Macedonian, who first reigned in Greece, coming out of the land of Cethim, had overthrown Darius king of the Persians and Medes: [2] He fought many battles, and took the strong holds of all, and slew the kings of the earth: [3] And he went through even to the ends of the...

For more than 60 years, there has been a bitter dispute over the unwillingness of most Muslims and Arabs to accept the legitimacy and permanence of Israel as an independent Jewish state in the Middle East. In this connection, Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have denied that the Jews are a people within the context of the modern political and legal doctrine of the self-determination of peoples. However, there is an enormous body of archeological and historical evidence demonstrating that the Jewish people - like the Greek people or the Han Chinese people - is among the oldest of the...

The battle over the evidence for G-d in nature, and how it is denied, is well known. However, the other great body of evidence for the existence of G-d is in human history in general, and Jewish history in particular. This the unbelievers do not so much deny as subvert by a very clever and (dare one say it?) diabolical tactic. The Jewish People are probably the most ancient people still living on earth. Though their number has been small and insignificant in every generation, their influence has been so out of proportion to their numbers as to be incredible....

A reminder of the historic significance of the Jewish People's first day in the Holy Land was provided by a trip for Russian-speaking Israelis to Joshua's Altar on Mt. Ebal outside Shechem. The story began just before this past Chanukah, when two busloads of Russian-speaking Israelis - new immigrants, veteran immigrants, and some tourists - made their first visit to the site known as Joshua's Altar near Shechem (Nablus). Security concerns notwithstanding, the visitors - many of whom had never been to the area - came away greatly inspired, and some were even moved to tears. Secular Jews found themselves...

Excavations in Kfar Kana reveal settlements from time of King Solomon and Roman period 13 Mar 2006New excavations reveal findings from the Jewish settlement of “Kana of the Galilee” dating from the Roman period. Excavating one of 11 storage jars (Israel Antiquities Authority)Salvage excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Kfar Kana (north of Nazareth), have uncovered remains of a settlement that existed at the time of the United Kingdom of King Solomon and the Kingdom of Israel (following the split between Israel and Judah, from the 10-9th centuries BCE). During the course of the excavations, a section of...

Jewish home found in City of David By ETGAR LEFKOVITS Jun. 5, 2005 18:32 | Updated Jun. 5, 2005 19:29 "Site of excavation at City of David. Photo: Israel Antiquities Authority A Second Temple Jewish house has been uncovered in Jerusalem's ancient City of David, Israel's Antiquities Authority announced Sunday. The 2,000 year old private home, which archeologists believe was part of a complex of homes belonging to affluent people, was discovered during an excavation at the history-rich site last month. Several rooms of the split-level house - as well as a ritual bath - were found at the compound,...

On a Saturday, 75 years and three days ago, hordes of Arabs descended on the tranquil and ancient Jewish community of Hebron. At the end of the rampage, 67 Jews - men, women, children, babies - lay dead. They weren't neatly executed. Some were decapitated and disemboweled. Limbs were severed, eyes gouged, and all manner of ghastly, unthinkable mutilation practiced. A preteen girl was raped by 13 heroes of that Palestinian revolution (before there was a state of Israel or an occupation to rage against) and then hung upside down over an open flame to roast slowly to death. All...

Tonight, beginning at sundown, we observe the major fast day of Tisha B'Av, the 9th of Av. On this day in Jewish history, The first Bais Hamikdosh (Temple) and the second Bais Hamikdosh were both destroyed. It was decreed that our forefathers (who left Egypt) would remain in the desert and not enter the Land of Israel. The city of Betar was captured and tens of thousands of Jews were killed. Turnus Rufus plowed the site of the Bais Hamikdosh and its surroundings. Also, on this day, the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492. We observe these and other...

My friend Michelle Nevada and I talk a lot about the situation in Israel. And, often, one of the things we discuss is the "prime minister" situation. I often kid about how there must be some gas pumped into the prime minister's office that makes them lose their nerve and turn wishy-washy. And, lately, I've been saying about Ariel Sharon, "Who is this man and what has he done to our prime minister?" But with his new mishegas (craziness), I'm starting to think that Sharon (or whatever body double is making his policies right now) has really forgotten what the...

In 1862, in the heat of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant initiated one of the most blatant official episodes of anti-Semitism in 19th-century American history. In December of that year, Grant issued his infamous General Order No. 11, which expelled all Jews from Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi: The Jews, as a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department and also department orders, are hereby expelled from the department [the "Department of the Tennessee," an administrative district of the Union Army of occupation composed of Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi] within twenty-four hours from the receipt...

Rabbi Yaakov Y. Horowitz's version of American History 101 runs something like this: When the colonies were settled, the shochet, or kosher slaughterer, was not far behind. When gold prospectors flocked to California, so did the kosher inspectors. When Passover arrived at Army camps during the Civil War, so did the matzo. The founder of American Jewish Legacy, a nonprofit historical organization, Rabbi Horowitz has created an exhibit of kosher practices that offers glimpses of how Jewish dietary laws were followed from the earliest arrivals of Jews in the mid-17th century into the last century. "The development of Judaism was...

Enough is Enough: An Open Letter to the President of the United States Rabbi Eliezer Waldman The responsibility for the well being of the State of Israel and the security of the Jews rests solely on the shoulders of the government of the State of Israel. Only they have the moral authority to decide how to defend the country and safeguard the destiny of the Jewish people. The Jewish people suffered enough when exiled 2000 years ago upon the destruction of the Second Temple. We were forced to wander from country to country where we were locked away into ghettos....