Dramatic Episode From Six Day War
Shortly after the Six Day War, Col. Mordechai Gur, who commanded the paratroop brigade with liberated the Old City of Jerusalem was appointed military advisor of the Israeli delegation in […]
The Hanging of the Two British Sergeants
One of Them was Jewish In 1947, Palestine Jewry’s underground struggle against the British — which ultimately forced them to turn the Palestine Problem over to the UN– reached its […]
Rabbi David Cohen, the Nazir
Soon after Israeli troops entered the Old City of Jerusalem, an army jeep was sent to the Kerem Abraham Quarter of the modern city to take Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook […]
The Jewish Historical Museum of Belgrade
The Jewish Historical Museum of Belgrade was founded after World War II by survivors of the Holocaust who felt it their duty to collect material on the crimes against the […]
Precursors of the Daf Yomi
1. Two features distinguish the Daf Yomi: The daily learning of the Blatt Gemara, resulting in the completion of the whole of Shas in a period of over seven years, […]