11+ hour, 14+ min ago   (165+ words) By Ari Melnik in Ramat Gan, Israel The same war that sent some of our diaspora brothers and sisters rushing toward us sent others rushing the other way. People we assumed were family turned out to be strangers. People we…...

12+ hour ago   (357+ words) By Alex Gordon in Haifa, Israel The emperor’s decree was a significant setback in establishing equality for Jews during the French Revolution. Bonaparte wanted to dissuade Jews from Judaism. He believed that they needed to be saved from their erroneous…...

19+ hour, 31+ min ago   (124+ words) Otto Warburg (July 20, 1859 – January 10, 1938) was a German-Jewish botanist. He was also a notable industrial agriculture expert and president of the Zionist Organization from 1911 to 1921. [Wikipedia] He was also a notable industrial agriculture expert and president of the Zionist Organization from…...

2+ day, 44+ min ago   (360+ words) By Betzy Lynch in La Jolla, California On the evening of July 22, we begin Tisha B’Av, the day we remember the destruction of the First and Second Temples and the many heartbreaks that have shaped Jewish history. Yet the Jewish…...

2+ day, 44+ min ago   (562+ words) By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson in Mevasseret Zion, Israel In 1916 my father, Manfred Vanson (van Son) was born in Germany, in the port city of Hamburg. His great-grandfather had moved there in 1823 from Deventer in Holland where his family had lived for…...

2+ day, 44+ min ago   (92+ words) Benjamin Franklin Jonas (July 19, 1834 – December 21, 1911) was an American politician who was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Louisiana and an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. [Wikipedia] Benjamin Franklin Jonas (July 19, 1834 – December 21, 1911) was an American politician…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (57+ words) Roald Hoffmann (July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui “for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions”. [Wikipedia] He has also published plays, poetry, and popular science He…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (114+ words) (Melody: The Way We Were) By Laurie Baron in San Diego Election, That Joe Biden claims he won. The Chinese tampered with the voting. That’s how it was done. Rigging machines. Counting votes cast by the dead. Ballots from illegal…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (451+ words) By Heidi Gantwerk in San Diego After years of war, extended evacuation, separation, and profound grief, there is a new energy in Sha’ar HaNegev focused on rebuilding and reconnecting its 10,000 residents. I came away moved, inspired, and immensely proud that…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (114+ words) Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (July 17, 1925) is a German-British cellist, and a surviving member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Wallfisch co-founded the English Chamber Orchestra and she has been honoured and thanked by the British and German governments for her work. [Wikipedia]…...