Before the airlifts, Ethiopian Jews did the heavy lifting to get out of Africa

Thirty years ago, in 1991, Israel pulled off a remarkable rescue mission. Operation Solomon brought around 15,000 members of the ancient Ethiopian...

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Angels in antiquity: Judaism’s long relationship with heaven’s haloed helpers

When then-Princeton graduate student Mika Ahuvia was taking a class in Roman religion, she became intrigued by ancient religious statuary in the...

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70 21.11.2021

‘Plan A’ dramatizes real plot to kill millions of Germans as payback for Holocaust

Max, a German Jew who lost his wife and child in the Holocaust, has gotten a job with the Nuremberg water supply department in the aftermath of World...

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30 19.11.2021

How Nazi sympathizers in WWII Cape Town spied on the Allies and evaded justice

In one of the more improbable Nazi operations during World War II, a South African boxer named Robey Leibbrandt traveled back home from the Reich...

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70 22.10.2021

How a Jewish Manhattan Project scientist quietly helped the Soviets get the bomb

In 1948, FBI head J. Edgar Hoover was sharply focused on the Communist Party of the USA to root out Russian espionage — and with his attention...

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200 02.10.2021

Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV, yet his trial was no slam dunk

Two days after the assassination of United States president John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963, the accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald,...

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50 26.09.2021

Did Maimonides ignite the cannabis craze? Book probes roles of Jews in medicine

If you think medical marijuana is a contemporary craze, here’s a surprise: No less a sage than physician-rabbi Moses ben Maimon prescribed...

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New book dredges up Warsaw Ghetto ‘police’ who sent fellow Jews to their deaths

Already suffering from disease and hunger, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto started to be rounded up for deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp in...

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200 11.08.2021

Man who rescued 669 Czech children from Nazis is now the hero of a kids’ book

When Vera, a young Jewish girl, was growing up outside of Prague in 1938, she had little on her mind besides her grandmother and love of animals. But...