History 108 articles

Land of My Birth – The main link between Eretz Yisrael and the Diaspora during the time of exile was through a “Shadar” – a messenger sent to collect donations for...

Land of My Birth – Rabbi Yehuda Alcharizi was born in 1170. He was the last poet in a long and distinguished line of Jewish poets in Spain, and nobody as...

Holy and Secular – “Forty years since the liberation of Jerusalem,” the sign at the entrance to the capital declares. “Forty years of occupation,” is written on a sign at an...

A Lesson For the Children – “This is insane! I will not agree to put myself and our children in danger!” That is what Esther said. “We have no other choice,”...

Yom Yerushalayim 5767 Let’s take a walk down “what-could-have-been” land, and return to the time of the Six Day War. It was again the three week period between when Gamal Nassar,...

Land of My Birth – On the fourteenth of Iyar 5707 (May 4, 1947), the members of the Etzel performed a more daring and sophisticated act than had ever been attempted...

Not Herzl, nor the Biluim, and not the brave pioneers of the First and Second Aliya can be credited with being the sole precursors of the return to Zion, which led...

A Lesson For the Children: Our story begins in 5708 (1948), in the days before the State of Israel was established. Shots were heard on the quiet Tel Aviv street. Two...

Land of My Birth: David Ben-Gurion, who was not only Prime Minister but also Defense Minister, felt that it was important to show Israel’s strength in military parades. Even in the...

Land of My Birth – The bloody War of Independence had ended (in Adar 5709, 1949), one month before the events to be described below. And for the first time, Pesach,...