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Evidence of Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem unearthed in City of David

| 26/07/2017 | 0 Comments
Evidence of Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem unearthed in City of David

  By Daniel K. Eisenbud “These findings depict the affluence and character of the Judean Kingdom and are mesmerizing proof of the city’s demise at the hands of the Babylonians.” During […]

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What should be the Jewish share of the Ottoman Empire?

| 30/06/2017 | 0 Comments
What should be the Jewish share of the Ottoman Empire?

June 30, 2017, 11:47 pm Judy Weleminsky   What should be the Jewish share of the Ottoman Empire? Does that seem like rather a strange question? Maybe that’s just because […]

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Arab Refusal of Culpability for the Middle East Conflict

| 21/06/2017 | 0 Comments
Arab Refusal of Culpability for the Middle East Conflict

 Accusation: mention of “Israel apartheid” (a standard trope in the anti-Semitic wings of the New Old Now Old Far Out and Lost Left) and “letting the refugees return”. How about […]

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Finding my roots in Tel Aviv

| 15/05/2017 | 0 Comments
Finding my roots in Tel Aviv

Raised in England by Iraqi Jewish parents, Rachel Shabi ‘blanded out’ her family heritage to fit in with her peers. Years later, she has finally learned to embrace her parents’ […]

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The Iraqi Jewish Archive, as it became known, is both proud and pitiful.

| 04/07/2012 | 0 Comments
The Iraqi Jewish Archive, as it became known, is both proud and pitiful.

By Alex Joffe  To whom do antiquities belong? Are they the property of modern states, current proprietors of the real estate where they were created, however many centuries or millennia […]

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