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Rachel Cohen-Kagan was one of the most prominent activists for the advancement of women’s rights in the young State of Israel. Her efforts led to her being among the signatories of the Declaration of Independence
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Diaspora
The scroll was hidden away from the German occupiers in an unlikely location…
Ulrich Schnaft was a former member of the SS, who posed as a Jew and joined the Israeli army after WWII
The man believed to be “Ivan the Terrible”, a notorious Nazi war criminal, was brought to Israel to face charges in 1986, but the affair ended in doubt and mystery
A glimpse of the Letter of Apostasy (“Iggeret HaShmad”) sent by Maimonides as a message to Jews who were forced to convert to Islam and now wished to return to Judaism
The incredible life story of the former leader of the Lehi underground movement, whose personal archive is preserved in the National Library
The legendary movie star was enlisted to join a campaign raising awareness of the plight of Soviet Jewry during the Cold War era
How a women’s protest group made a difference by raising the cause of Soviet Jewish political prisoners during the Cold War
Several months after he was baptized, the poet Heinrich Heine wrote to his friend about the frustration, disappointment and remorse that this action had brought about.
Shloimy Alman’s collection of photographs of Jewish London from the 1970s survive as a unique record of a disappeared world.
In honor of the Jewish New year, Adeena Sussman shares a new recipe inspired by a cookbook that helped new immigrants to the Land of Israel adjust to the local cuisine.
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