By David Isaac, Executive Director It’s too early to tell what the greatest benefit of the Abraham Accords will be. At the very least, it’ll be hard to put the genie back in the bottle – in a good way. …
By David Isaac, Executive Director Thanks to our friends at Piece of History, we have a new figurine in our shop – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. It’s all the excuse we need to talk about this remarkable Zionist, who was a peculiar …
By David Isaac, Executive Director The First Zionist Congress, if it had been held this year, would have ended on Monday. It was held from August 29-31 in 1897. The idea was to create a political institution that would represent …
By David Isaac, Executive Director Edward Alexander should have been a household name in the Jewish community. Perhaps the community was too busy celebrating the very people he was defending them against, the likes of Thomas Friedman, Michael Lerner, Amos …
By David Isaac, Executive Director The flowering of open relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is a remarkable turn of events and demonstrates that if you stay the course – as Israel did simply by holding its own …
By David Isaac, Executive Director Hollywood actor Seth Rogen caused a storm with comments he made about Israel in a July 27 podcast. Trying to be funny, he said that Israel doesn’t make sense. If you’re trying to preserve something …
On August 4, 1940, Vladimir “Ze’ev” Jabotinsky died at a Betar camp in Hunter, New York of a massive heart attack.
By David Isaac History is supposedly written by the victors. Israel appears to be the exception. For some inexplicable reason, Israeli historians have whitewashed the role of Britain’s betrayal of the Jews. Britain, which had promised to help the Jews …
Vladimir “Ze’ev” Jabotinsky died 79 years ago this Sunday.
David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, served for about 13 1/2 years. It was a record that stood for 56 years until it was broken today.