by hadassah | Dec 31, 2008 | Jews of Yemen, Returning and Redemption, Uneasy Truce and the Suez War
Keren Hayesod, Jerusalem. No date, circa 1950s. A photographic essay of the immigration of Yemeni Jews into Israel. Click here for more on Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands To all those who participated in the redemption of the Jews of Yemen–to the people and the...
by hadassah | Jul 21, 2008 | Returning and Redemption, Uneasy Truce and the Suez War
Introducing the State of Israel, the Exodus of Soviet Jewry, and the Upward Mobility of American Jews World War II re-drew the map of world Jewry. Seventy-two percent of European Jewry perished during of the Holocaust, the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and...
by hadassah | Jul 16, 2008 | Returning and Redemption, Uneasy Truce and the Suez War
Back row from left- Lieutnant Meir Har-Zion, Major Arik Sharon, Lieutnant General Moshe Dayan (Chief of Staff), Captain Dani Matt, Lieutnant Moshe Efron, Major General Asaf Simchoni. Front row from left- Captain Aharon Davidi, Lieutnant Ya’akov Ya’akov,...
by hadassah | Apr 27, 2008 | Returning and Redemption, Uneasy Truce and the Suez War
The Gates Open In the eighteenth months following the Declaration of Independence, 340,000 Jews arrived in Israel. They came by passenger liner, by rickety dormitory steamer, by plane, and in some instances by clandestine land routes. Even as war still raged and the...
by hadassah | Apr 27, 2008 | Returning and Redemption, Uneasy Truce and the Suez War
Our State Department would seem to be trading with the other Arab nations over oil concessions, while going through the motions of appearing to want a just settlement in Jerusalem. Click here to view the original article. Support for Israeli opposition to the...
