Israeli Jews

This war established the permanency of Israeli borders and their expansions. Five years later, after the completion of the six-day war the Yum Kippur War occurred. Yum Kippur is one of the holiest days in Judaism. During Yum Kippur in 1973 the Arab coalition bombed occupied territories of Islam…

SIMON WIESENTHAL 1908-2005 At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in the systematic murder of some 6,000,000 Jews and millions of Gypsies, Poles and other "inferior" peoples, slipped through the Allied net and escaped to countries around the globe, where many still live in freedom. Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of the Nazi death camps, dedicated his life to documenting the crimes of the Holocaust and to hunting down the perpetrators still at large. "When history looks…

Ever since there was a rise in anti-Semitism, a man named Theodor Herzl’s dreamt of a Zionist movement where Jews would gain their own separate nation, which soon became a reality in what became Israel. Survivors of the Holocaust would flee into Israel, which triggered anger amongst the Palestinians because they “viewed Jewish independence as a betrayal of their…

that he decided at this most sensitive time to publically blame Jews for the crime of trying to pray on the Temple Mount. There is no doubt that such an attitude both legitimizes and strengthens Arab violence with a rabbinic stamp of approval! In my eyes, Shafran’s comments border on the criminal and he should be condemned by all! In a recent article posted in Ha’aretz, Rabbi Shafran tries to place the blame of Arab violence on Jews who ascend to the Temple Mount in accordance with Jewish Law.…

Indifference Hypothesis: The Holocaust and the Enthusiasts for Murder” and Omer Bartov’s “Defining Enemies, Making Victims: Germans, Jews, and the Holocaust” provide alternative reasoning for why German citizens not only watched the slaughter, but also actively participated in it. While Glass effectively argues that the German populace was indoctrinated to believe that the Jews were vermin, Bartov’s argument that they were simply scapegoated since they had historically fulfilled that role…

friendship with his father when he served as California Representative and worked to convince others on Capitol Hill to rescue Jews in Europe from Nazis’ terror. President Roosevelt’s inaction to save the Jews baffled Will Rogers, Jr. who said, “I could not understand the Administration that I supported. I could not understand their attitude towards the rescue of large numbers of Jews …it would have been the humanitarian thing that I would have thought Roosevelt should have been in favor of. I…

As the twentieth century began Jews were shaken to their core. In Russia, writers created The Protocols of the Elders of Zion which were forged minutes of meeting of alleged Jews coming together to discuss how they are going to take over the world by manipulating the news and the economy. This fake was blasted and translated into many different languages. It didn’t take long for an insight of violence to erupt as many Russians hounded Jews to leave Chukfinskii square and ended being an all-out…

The Zealots • The Zealots were more of a nationalistic movement than one of religion; • They were committed to the overthrow of the Roman rule (acts 21:28 NIV); • Known mostly for their defense of Masada; then committing mass suicide rather than surrender to the Romans (NSW Board of Education, 2012). The Scribes Most likely the first Jewish scribes emerged during the Babylonian captivity. At first, they were professional copyists of the law. This gave them the opportunity to learn about the…

did your perspective of the Polish-Jewish past change during the project? Initially, I primarily excused the Poles and saw them as Germans' collaborators. However, during the project I have come to understand that many Poles took part in saving the Jews during the Holocaust. In addition, I learned that their situation sometimes was difficult too. It was a war after all. Thus, today it seems I less blame them as a whole, but rather understand that in each society there were good and negative…

death of Tsar Alexander II. This created and fueled the movement in its formative years. Russia was engulfed by 215 pogroms, which destroyed nearly $80 million worth of Jewish property6. Newspapers and literature cultivated the stereotype of the “sly Jew” and Herzl highlights the encounters of anti-Semitism, such as abusive language, that were more dangerous than political…