Heritage Archives – Page 3 of 3

Israeli Attractions: Kochav HaYarden (Belvoir)

Ron Traub | 16/03/201823/03/2018

Located in the Jordan Valley, the Belvoir castle, built in 1168 by Hospitaller Knights on the ruins of the Jewish town Kochav, aimed to stop the Muslim invasion but was overrun by a major historic figure.

Israeli Attractions: Givat Sher – The Judean Lowhills

Ron Traub | 09/03/201818/03/2018

A beautiful park in the city of Modi'in, Givat Sher is an ancient location of wine and olive oil production with unique structure that indicates it was of special importance.

Israel – a Jewish Homeland with a Universal Heart

Daniel Krygier | 05/03/201816/03/2018

Jews in the Diaspora are increasingly at odds with mainstream Israel in a replay of the timeless Jewish challenge of finding the right balance between particularism and universalism.

Israeli Attractions: Yodfat

Ron Traub | 02/03/201809/03/2018

Located in the Lower Galilee, this archaeological gem is the site of a significant battle between the Jewish population and invading Romans, where a historic figure first emerges.

Europe’s Moratorium on Jew Hatred is Over

Justin Amler | 21/02/201806/03/2018

An assault on Jewish rites, the likes of which have not been seen since the Nazi era, is spreading throughout Europe. From Poland to Iceland, antisemitism is back in the mainstream.

Israel is the Ultimate Anti-Imperialist State

Daniel Krygier | 20/02/201802/03/2018

European imperialism in the Middle East was preceded by Islamist imperialism. The Jewish state is the only indigenous fragment that survived the onslaught of Islamic imperialism

The Polish Holocaust Law: Why We Should Care

Zahava Englard Shapiro | 13/02/201828/02/2018

Poland is not alone in its efforts to separate itself from the Nazi atrocities. Other countries in Europe are working very hard to whitewash their long history of Jew-hatred.

The Polish Holocaust Law is Poland’s Problem, Not Israel’s

Alex Grinberg | 04/02/201813/02/2018

While the Polish law calling for punishment of those accusing Poland for the Holocaust is problematic and undemocratic, it is more foolish than it is antisemitic.

Erasing the Jew from Holocaust Memory

Dr. Elana Heideman | 26/01/201806/02/2018

The Holocaust is being universalized by International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the detriment of Jewish victims, the rights to Jewish memory and the dignity of the Jewish world

The Occupation that Stole Christmas

Forest Rain | 31/12/201711/01/2018

Christmas in Israel is a beautiful holiday perverted. Instead of beauty and hope, elements of the holiday are twisted into political propaganda designed to deny Jews their heritage.

Obsessive Distraction from Muslim failure

Daniel Krygier | 19/12/201731/12/2017

Insecure Islamists reject Jewish Jerusalem as a strategy to strengthen its position and Europe’s post-Christian political elite do so to reject their Judeo-Christian heritage.

Will the Real Colonialists Please Stand Up?

Judith Bergman | 17/12/201730/12/2017

Hanukkah marks the victory over those who sought to erase the Jewish heritage. The Syrian-Greek colonialists may have disappeared from history, but the Arab colonialists remain

Arabs Must Stop Stealing Jewish Identity for Peace to Succeed

Daniel Krygier | 06/12/201725/12/2017

Arab cultural appropriation of everything Israeli and attempt to steal the identity of the Jewish people by claiming the land and the history as their own, is an effort to eradicate Israel

Arab Historian Admits there is No Palestinian People

Judith Bergman | 09/11/201722/11/2017

When the Ottoman rule ended, there was no Palestinian national identity or political borders. It was all made up later. Arabs themselves say so, but the west isn't listening

Israel – Reborn in Defiance of Imperialism

Daniel Krygier | 07/11/201720/11/2017

Britain did not create Israel. Post-Balfour Britain did everything to prevent its creation. Israel is the ultimate anti-imperial state, defying all odds in it's rebirth

No Apologies for Balfour

David Parsons | 01/11/201713/11/2017

The Balfour Declaration was part of the larger Allied effort to support self determination of all indigenous peoples in the Middle East in their historic homelands, for Jews and Arabs alike.

In the Founding of a Nation, We Find Ourselves

Daniel Seaman | 27/10/201707/11/2017

By making aliyah to Israel we find meaning and purpose. We find that we are part of something greater than ourselves. Just as Abraham did when commanded to "Lech lecha"