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Riding a train doesn’t have to be dull if you manage to fall in with good company. You can meet up with merchants, men who know business, and then the time flies, or with people who have been around…
Having risen from behind the Judean hills late at night, the moon illuminated the Yemenite neighborhood and the nearby bushland; it played a magical game there between the trees. It hid behind them…
Zikhron Ya‘akov was first established near the city of Haifa as a Jewish agricultural settlement in 1882 by members of a Jewish nationalist association from northeastern Romania. These immigrants, the…
Yizkor: Tsum ondenk fun di gefalene vekhter un arbeyter in erets-yisroel (Yizkor: In Memory of the Fallen Watchmen and Workers in the Land of Israel) commemorates fallen Jewish guards and workers who…
The philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896) was the leading benefactor of world Jewry in his time. He established the Baron de Hirsch Fund to assist immigrants to the United States and…
Immigrants on a ship from Hamburg, Germany, arriving in New York, December 10, 1906. They were among the 15 million immigrants who came to the United States between 1900 and 1915. Most of the…
“Is the Bene-Israel in India a pure Jew by descent” is the question often asked and discussed. There has been considerable literature on the subject especially by aliens, even such as can claim little…
The situation in Argentina is crying for change. If we don’t want the Jewish colonists to vanish into anonymous misery and oppression; if we don’t want the colonies…
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What the Zionist Organization has to aim at is to lay down in Palestine as soon as possible a populous and thriving agrarian foundation, in order to build up…
The idea of reopening the doors of Portugal and its colonies to Jews is not new. It is born out of a spirit of non-Jews and Jews, who know firsthand the nobility and high-mindedness of Portuguese…