Not long before becoming the world’s most famous hairstylist and building a business empire, Sassoon fought for Israeli independence. He lost friends, gained confidence, went weeks without a shower, and literally never learned the Hebrew word for ‘retreat’…
“Your rabbi was taken as a hostage”: Accounts of Russian Tactics in WWI
Hostage-taking and forced migration were just two methods used by Russian forces in Ukraine and Poland a century ago
This Iranian Trailblazer Revolutionized Global Medicine and Thought
The works of Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna, served as core medical texts for some 500 years in Europe. His groundbreaking philosophical teachings also transcended borders…
A Haredi Holocaust Hero in the Congo
“I am happy and proud that our mission is spreading the idea of loving one another, loving humanity, without paying attention to skin color.”
The Last Will and Testament of Rabbi David Friesenhausen
Published in 1820, the work contains some surprising, candid views on science, faith, women, and more…
The Man Who Tried to Redefine Ukrainian Jewish History
For Ilya Galant, the myths of eternal hatred between Ukrainians and Jews were just that, myths
This Flamboyant New York Jew Amended Black Legal History
Eight Black youths were hastily sentenced to death in 1931 Alabama. Global outcry ensued, and a flamboyant New York Jewish lawyer was sent down to defend them…
Photographed Together: Begin’s Father and Sharon’s Grandfather
Long before the State of Israel, the two men worked together at a Jewish bank and Jewish self-defense organization in Brest-Litovsk
Did Esperanto Answer the ‘Jewish Question’?
How Jewish was the international tongue that never quite made it…?
Before Liberation: Mourning the Holocaust in 1945
As the camps still operated in Europe, a call from Jerusalem to remember the victims and help the survivors was heeded across the globe…
