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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 367

Ben Zehavi

A photo of the 1964 declaration recognizing Israel's independence, signed by former president Harry Truman. (Courtesy Raab Collection)
May 1, 2019, 10:22 am
Only copy of US recognition of Israel signed by Truman up for sale
The unique document endorsed by president Harry Truman has only been displayed in public four times
By Ben Zehavi
A stone memorializing Joyce Fienberg (spelling on stone differs) at a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue to the 11 people killed October 27, 2018 while worshiping in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh November 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
April 10, 2019, 2:45 pm
Pittsburgh victim’s family asks Diaspora to invite two non-Jews to Passover meal
After mother-in-law Joyce Fienberg was killed in the October synagogue shooting, Marnie Fienberg started 2 for Seder, which combats anti-Semitism through education — and food
By Ben Zehavi
Illustrative: A lithograph, circa 1880, of a group of men, women, and children being taken to a slave market. (Wellcome collection)
March 29, 2019, 10:52 am
19th-cent. Slave Bible that removed Exodus story to repress hope goes on display
Censored texts were used by missionaries in the Caribbean colonies to emotionally manipulate the forced laborers who built the British Empire
By Ben Zehavi
Blanca Carrasco on a visit to a Sephardi synagogue in Fez, Morocco. (Courtesy)
February 17, 2019, 4:42 am
US crypto-Jews race to reclaim heritage before Spanish citizenship offer ends
A record number of Americans whose Jewish ancestors fled the Inquisition are applying for citizenship as an ‘insurance policy’ against a perceived rise in US anti-Semitism
By Ben Zehavi
Former US ambassador to Romania Alfred Moses. (Courtesy)
November 27, 2018, 8:39 am
How an American Moses helped lead Romania’s Jews to the Promised Land
A new book by the former US Ambassador to Bucharest, who in the 1970s and ’80 helped thousands of Jews flee Ceausescu’s regime for Israel, chronicles a country in transition
By Ben Zehavi
Illustrative photo of a man smoking an electronic cigarette. (CC BY, Lindsay Fox, Wikimedia Commons)
November 18, 2018, 2:44 am
US Jewish day schools ‘not immune’ to e-cigarette epidemic among teens
With flavors such as mango, fruit medley, and creme brulee, American youth are taking up ‘vaping’ — including at Orthodox institutions
By Ben Zehavi
Josh Block (standing), president and CEO of The Israel Project, with staff in the Washington, DC office, in December 2014. (Ben Zehavi/The Times of Israel)
January 16, 2015, 2:58 am
DC-based command center fights Israel’s war of ideas
Facing coordinated and sophisticated opponents of Israel in cyberspace, The Israel Project is shooting back
By Ben Zehavi
Yehuda Malka on left, Dan Rabinowitz on right. Founders of ModernistKosher.com and hosts of a kosher supper club in the DC suburbs. (Ben Zehavi/The Times of Israel)
December 25, 2014, 11:11 pm
On Christmas, General Tso demoted by kosher supper clubs
Observant Jewish diners seek trendier alternatives to lemon chicken on Nittel Nacht
By Ben Zehavi
Leon Wieseltier, an intellectual and philosopher who was the literary editor of The New Republic for more than three decades, poses for a photograph in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)
December 11, 2014, 7:59 pm
Who cares if the last bastion of pro-Israel American liberals crumbles?
Insiders blame billionaire owner Chris Hughes, 31, for demise of The New Republic, a journalistic institution that punched above its weight
By Ben Zehavi
Eric Cantor, the former House majority leader, delivers an address titled 'An America That Leads' at the Virginia Military Institute, on February 17, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy of House Majority Leader/JTA)
June 13, 2014, 4:01 am
Could Cantor have lost because he’s a Jew?
Pundits, Jewish Virginians deny anti-Semitism played part in ‘evil twist of fate’ that brought down House majority leader in primary
By Ben Zehavi
Hillary Rodham Clinton (photo credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
June 6, 2014, 1:38 am
Jewish Clinton supporters organize to urge her to run
The Jewish arm of the Ready for Hillary grassroots juggernaut has officially launched. Too soon?
By Ben Zehavi
Alan Gross and his wife, Judy, at the Western Wall in spring, 2005. (photo credit: Courtesy of Jewish Community Relations Council of Washington)
June 3, 2014, 11:50 pm
US State Dept: No Bergdahl-like swap for Alan Gross
The US is exchanging five Taliban leaders for captured army sergeant, but opposes a prisoner swap for US aid worker, who lingers in a Cuban prison
By Ben Zehavi
Harry Truman receives a gift from Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and Israel's Ambassador to the US Abba Eban at the White House in 1951. (Courtesy GPO)
February 8, 2014, 6:51 am
The pro-Israel lobby: An obstacle to peace since 1948?
A new book examines Truman’s conflicted attitudes toward Israel and takes aim at the pro-Israel lobby’s influence from the birth of the Jewish state until today
By Ben Zehavi
Thousands of waterlogged Jewish books and documents shortly after their discovery in a flooded basement of Saddam Hussein's former intelligence headquarters, May 2003. (Photo credit: courtesy The National Archives)
November 13, 2013, 6:13 am
Don’t give Baghdad trove of Jewish artifacts, groups urge US
Over 40 Jewish organizations write letter urging Washington not to return Jewish documents recovered from Iraqi basement in 2003
By ToI Staff and Ben Zehavi
Thousands of waterlogged Jewish books and documents shortly after their discovery in a flooded basement of Saddam Hussein's former intelligence headquarters, May 2003. (Photo credit: courtesy The National Archives)
November 6, 2013, 12:41 am
Rescued from Saddam, Iraqi Jewish archive finally on display
Some of the thousands of Jewish items recovered by US troops from a flooded Baghdad basement have been painstakingly restored for public display. But should they return to Iraq next year?
By Ben Zehavi
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