by mgall74 | Jan 8, 2026 | Israeli News
[ad_1] After the First Zionist Congress in 1897, while riding the train home, Theodor Herzl recalled a deeply emotional moment. It was a prayer he recited in Hebrew at the synagogue in Basel before the congress. In his diary, the founder of modern political Zionism...
by mgall74 | Dec 16, 2025 | Israeli News
[ad_1] In the summer of 1788, several ships docked at Sydney, Australia, after a grueling 250-day journey. Their passengers, about 1,000 convicts exiled from England, were the first settlers in this new penal colony on a far-off continent. Eight of them were Jews....
by mgall74 | Dec 14, 2025 | Israeli News
[ad_1] I’m old enough to remember when there was such a thing as an award for best Jewish director. Sure, it was better known at the time as an Oscar, when the likes of Michael Curtiz, William Wyler, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann and Joseph L. Mankiewicz – and,...
by mgall74 | Dec 8, 2025 | Israeli News
[ad_1] Israel’s baby-name charts look familiar at the top, but Elia became the fastest-rising name for babies born in 2024 [ad_2] Source link
by mgall74 | Dec 8, 2025 | Israeli News
[ad_1] Also coming up: The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel marks the death of rocker Corinne Allal, whose music became the soundtrack for secular, queer Israel, and the Rubin Museum reopens after war damage with an exhibition of paintings by Menashe Kadishman...
