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Zack Rothbart
Zack likes history, reading and thinking (not necessarily in that order), and tries to learn something from everyone. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three smart and cute kids, for which he is grateful.
Land of Israel
It met in a movie theater, had a really weird assassination attempt, was led by a shockingly diverse coalition, and ended in resignation…
The unbelievable story of how 1,088 (or was it 1,122?) people flew aboard a single airplane as part of 1991’s Operation Solomon
Judaism
A glimpse into how artists across the ages have tried to depict the undepictable events at Mt. Sinai…
He swam to Haifa in 1940, unknowingly escaping the ill-fated “Patria”, then spent most of the 1948 war as a POW, saved from death more than once by his Arab Legion captors
Diaspora
In 1939, sickening accounts of impending genocide appeared on the same pages as cruise and resort promos
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