The Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration, sent as a letter to Lord Rothschild by A J Balfour, on November 2nd 1917, proposed a 'national home for the Jewish people' in Palestine. But when it was written, on behalf [...]
The Balfour Declaration, sent as a letter to Lord Rothschild by A J Balfour, on November 2nd 1917, proposed a 'national home for the Jewish people' in Palestine. But when it was written, on behalf [...]
Holocaust Memorial Day: 27 January 2016 With the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army on January 27 1945, the complete picture of Nazi atrocities perpetrated on Jews, gypsies, communists and gays during the 1939-45 [...]
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue… The first American? No, not quite. But Columbus was brave and he was bright… (Winifrid Sackville Stoner) August 3 1492, to be [...]
The terrorist attacks in New York on September 11th 2001 brought about a changed situation in world affairs. Since then old animosities have been swept aside and new friendships created, then broken again in the [...]
The Israeli parliament passed a law earlier this year that will end the exemption of men from national service for ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students. Most Israelis are conscripted into the military at the age of [...]
The remarkable story of the Jewish people and what it means for the world's future Spanning 4000 years of human history, the story of the Jews is an epic of faith and failure, of glory [...]