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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.
Diaspora
A look back at the disaster which befell the city of Brody in 1867, and how Europe’s Jews came together to help the victims
In a newly surfaced letter, the dictionary’s founding editor wrote that it was not thought likely to be more than a “passing nonce-word…”
Land of Israel
Rare images reveal the group’s first days in the Promised Land
Henry Ford was one of the most notorious American anti-Semites of the 20th century. His grandson, however, was an ardent Zionist. A collection of rare photos from Henry II’s little-known visit to Israel appears here for the first time.
Sent 80 years ago, on the day World War II broke out, the greeting recently surfaced
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