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A Lesson For the Children: Summary of Part 1: The monk Tomaso disappeared in the Jewish section of Damascus, and the Jews were accused of killing him in order to use...

My grandfather lived in Rezekne, Latvia until he was a teenager, and my wife’s grandfather lived as a boy in Kovno, Lithuania, both countries were a part of the Russian Empire....

A Lesson For the Children: It all started one winter day in the city of Damascus about 160 years ago. An Italian monk, Badro Tomaso, came to the Jewish market to...

Land of My Birth – At the end of the First World War (1918), the Zionist movement began to awaken in Damascus. The participants were Hebrew activists who had been expelled from...

Land of My Birth – The sixteenth century was the golden era of Tzefat. At the time, this city in the Galil was the home of the majority and the most...

Land of My Birth – On this very date, the sixth of Adar (Adar I in that year), the great battle was held over the isolated kibbutz, Tirat Tzvi, in the...

The Ten Commandments in the façade of a supermarket, a Star of David above the entrance of a Baptist church, a Hebrew date in the cornerstone of an apartment building. My...

From the pages of the OU’s JEWISH ACTION magazine (Summer 5766/2006) Listen to Steve Savitsky’s conversation with the converts themselves, on Around the Dining Room Table. It’s said that the “truth...