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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
The inferno that decimated Thessalonica left 70,000 people, including 52,000 Jews, homeless and penniless.
Land of Israel
In the early 1960s, a team of Israeli experts was dispatched on an urgent mission to Iran, to help rebuild an earthquake-ravaged region.
Were the ancient headstones sold or stolen and who was responsible for their disappearance?
Judaism
The Azores Megillah at the National Library of Israel provides beautiful and early textual evidence of Jewish life in the Azores, and it has has recently been digitized for the first time.
A rare miniature bible with a dedication to President George Washington was acquired last year as part of famed Valmadonna Trust Library.
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