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Anti-Semitism & Responses The Early Church and the Beginnings of Anti-Semitism The Arab/Muslim World Palestinians Use Twin Tower Image to Ridicule United States Palestinian Attitudes on War in Iraq Attitudes About Family Law, Women and the Judiciary System in Palestinian Society Palestinian Youth Poll on the Intifada (2003) Palestinian Attitudes on Terrorism Biography Nathan Birnbaum [Updated] Adam Czerniakow Saul Lieberman Joseph Soloveitchik Heraclius History Constantine and Helena: Judea Under Christian Rule Weights, Measures, and Coins The Babylonian Jewish Community Judea Under Byzantine Rule Holocaust Italian Public Opinion on the Jewish Question Working for the Kulturbund Royal Engineers (Solel Boneh) Express Shocked by News of the Final Solution Air Chief Marshal Portal's Note to Winston Churchill Concerning British Reprisal Bombings in Germany Jews of Hungary Imploring Prime Minister Sztojay to Act on Behalf of Hungarian Jewry The Ambassador in Poland Reports on Reaction of Government and Press to Events in Danzig Confidential Instructions for the Mayors of the Ghetto Centers Concerning the Deportation of the Hungarian Jews Krupp Trial La Grande Fosse Trial Majdanek Trial Third Majdanek Trial Lyons Trial Mauthausen Trial Photographs (WARNING: Photos contain graphic images) Aerial Photos of Birkenau Aerial Photos of Dachau After Liberation Aerial Photos of I.G. Farben Plant in Monowice Latvian Guard Jews of Lubny Await Execution Israel Israel's Diplomatic Missions Abroad [Updated] Peace Index [Updated] Potential Threats To Israel: Libya [Updated] Israeli Views on Society, Peace Process, Government Schooling & Income in Israel Polls on Unilateral Measures [Updated] Israeli Opinion Regarding Peace with the Palestinians [Updated] Save a Child's Heart Maps The Fertile Cresent (9000-4500 BCE) Mesopotamia to 2500 BCE Israel and Judah to 733 BCE The Empire of Cyrus II Alexander in the East The Roman Empire (12 CE) The Roman Empire (150 CE) The Roman Empire (500 CE) The Ottoman Empire and Tributary States (1566 to 1700) East Europe and the Ottoman Empire (1481) West Asia to 1200 BCE Peace Process Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Address to the Likud Central Committee on “Disengagement” (1/5/04) Reference Glossary [Updated] Terrorism Israeli “Hits” On Terrorists [Updated] Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles [Updated] Israeli Civilians and IDF Forces Killed in “Al-Aksa Intifida” [Updated] Travel Synagogues of the World Russia The Virtual Jewish History Tour Russia U.S.-Israel Relations U.S. Aid to Israel [Updated] American Attitudes Toward the Middle East [Updated] U.S. Assistance to Israel (1949-2003) [table] [Updated] U.S.-Israel Cooperation in Space [Updated] Israel Aids U.S. Campaign in Iraq [Updated] American Jewish Identity Survey (2001) 2004 Candidates' Views on the Middle East [Updated] Cooperation Between Israel and the State of Maryland [Updated] USAID Cash Transfer to Israel USAID Program in Israel Files Added In December 2003: Myths & Facts Online — Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict [Updated] NEW paperback edition now available! 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Anti-Semitism & Responses U.S. State Department Report on Religious Freedom 2003 Manifestations of Anti-Semitism in the European Union The Arab/Muslim World Palestinian Views on Political/Religious Factions [Updated] Palestinian Refugees in Gaza UNRWA Camps [Updated] Palestinian Refugees in Jordanian UNRWA Camps [Updated] Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon UNRWA Camps [Updated] Palestinian Refugees in Syrian UNRWA Camps [Updated] Palestinian Refugees in West Bank UNRWA Camps [Updated] Palestinian Refugees in UNRWA Camps [Updated] The “Islamic Affairs Department” of the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C. 2003 Palestinian Authority Textbook Calls for Jihad and Martyrdom Palestinian Attitudes about Peace with Israel Palestinian Views on the Media Palestinian Attitudes on Terrorism Palestinian Attitudes on Jerusalem Ahmed Qureia's Cabinet Archaeology Be'er Shema - The Church of St. Stephen Tel Qasile Jericho - The Winter Palace of King Herod Jerusalem - Water Systems of Biblical Times Jerusalem - Binyane Ha'uma Ceramics Workshop Cave of the Treasure Kiryat Sefer Gezer Golan - A Unique Chalcolithic Culture Capernaum Biography Paul von Hindenburg Kurt von Schleicher Wilhelm von Leeb Shelomo Ben-Yosef Mordechai Vanunu Rabbi Jacob Meir Rabbi Isaac Herzog Saddam Hussein [Updated] Eddie Slovik Wilhelm Leuschner Johannes Blaskowitz Helmut Knochen Wessel Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord Johannes Popitz Albrecht von Mertz von Quirnheim Hans Freiherr von Boineberg-Lengsfeld Guenther Blumentritt Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorf Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin Friedrich Karl Klausing Jan Karski [Updated] Ruth “Aliav” Kluger Moshe Smoira Shemuel Dayan Pinhas Lavon Theodor Kordt Helmuth Stieff Hans-Bernd von Haeften Walter Bargatzky Eugen Gerstenmaier Adam von Trott zu Solz Judy Chicago Sir Jacob Epstein Leonard Baskin Solomon Carvalho Richard Avedon Moses Ezekiel John Miller Kenneth Bentley Kramer Sedgwick William Green Anthony Charles Beilenson Daniel Glickman Theodore S. 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Podell Joshua Eilberg Edward Maurice Mezvinsky Fact Sheets #30: The Unilateral Option #29: The Geneva Initiative History Casualties in Arab-Israeli Wars Zionist Congresses From the Beginning of the State to Today [Updated] Via Maris Holocaust German Pows and Wounded Killed The Accused in the Malmedy Massacre Case The Malmédy Massacre Trial Youth Aliya School in Vienna Meeting Between AJC and SS-Obersturmfuehrer Kurt Asche Advertisements in the Jewish Chronicle Requesting Families to Offer Hospitality to Refugees A Demarche of Diplomats of the Neutral Countries to the Hungarian Government on Behalf of the Jewish Children Second Regulation for the Law of the Reunification of Austria with the German Reich The German Declaration of War with the United States Holocaust Compensation and Restitution By Country “Operation Valkyrie” Justice Trial Kesselring Trial Kharkov Trial Krasnodar Trial Sachsenhausen Trial Riga Trial Kreisau Circle Tilburg Lynching Trial Stalag Luft III Trial Stangl Trial Stutthof Trial Second Stutthof Trial Third Stutthof Trial Fourth Stutthof Trial Proclamation by the Greek National Liberation Front (EAM) to Rescue Jews Leo Baeck’s Prayer for All Jewish Communities in Germany Archbishop of Toulouse Protests the Persecution of the Jews The Last Letter from the Bund Representative with the Polish National Council in Exile Ringelblum on Cooperation Between Jewish Political Parties in the Underground Photographs (WARNING: Photos contain graphic images) The Ghetto Walls Jewish Children Smuggling Food Into The Warsaw Ghetto Jews Rounded Up During the Uprising Jews Executed in Nazi-Occupied Ukraine Killing Squad Executes Ukrainian Jew Jewish Women Executed in Mizocs Israel Balancing IDF Checkpoints and International Law: Teaching the IDF Code of Conduct Israeli Stocks Traded on Wall Street [Updated] Polls on Unilateral Measures Sixth Arrow Anti-Missile Test Successful Israel Planned to Assassinate Saddam Hussein in 1992 General Dynamics F-16I Fighting Falcon (Sufa) Age of Israeli Population Compared to Europe and U.S [graph] Households By Number of Children [graph] Population By Origin [pie chart] Judaism Chief Rabbis of England Maps Sea Peoples in the Late Bronze Age The Jewish Diaspora in the 1st Cent. CE The Hellenistic World (240 BCE) The Hellenistic World (90 BCE) Principal Trade Routes The Via Maris Peace Process The Palestinian Refugees [Updated] Israel-Syria Draft Peace Agreement: “Clinton Plan” Ariel Sharon Describes “Disengagement Plan” Quotations Yigal Allon on Zionism Louis Brandeis on Zionism Solomon Schechter on Zionism [Updated] Terrorism Total International Terrorist Attacks [Updated] Total International Terrorist Attacks by Region [Updated] Profile of Suicide Bombings Fatalities in Palestinian Terror Attacks Since 1967 [Updated] Travel Synagogues of the World France [Updated] Austria Belgium [Updated] Egypt [Updated] Algeria [Updated] Ohio [Updated] New York [Updated] Georgia Maryland California Illinois The Virtual Jewish History Tour Vienna [Updated] A Chronology of the Jews in Britain Warsaw [Updated] United Nations The United Nations and Israel [Updated] General Assembly Resolutions ES-10/14 (Referral of security fence issue to International Court of Justice) — 12/3/2003 U.S.-Israel Relations Israel Aids U.S. Campaign in Iraq American Attitudes Toward the Middle East Pro-Israel Political Contributions Arab-American and Muslim PAC Contributions The Arab Population in the U.S. The Israeli and Arab Lobbies [Upated] 2004 Candidates' Views on the Middle East [Updated] Deconstructing George W. Bush`s Middle East Strategy Gallup Polls on American Sympathy Toward Israel and the Arabs/Palestinians [Updated] American Sympathy Toward Israel and the Arabs/Palestinians [Updated] Creation of a "Palestine Entity" Pressure Intensifies in Campaign for Tanks for Israel Johnson Rejects Tank Sale to Israel Europe Viewed As Alternative Supplier of Tanks, Concerns Raised About Israeli Nuclear Program Jews Who Have Served in the United States House of Representatives [Updated] Files Added In November 2003 Files Added In October 2003 Files Added In September 2003 Files Added In August 2003 Files Added In July 2003 Files Added In June 2003 Files Added In May 2003 Files Added In April 2003 Files Added In March 2003 Files Added In February 2003 Files Added In January 2003 Files Added In 2002 Files Added In 2001 Files Added in 2000 Files Added in 1999 Files Added in 1998 (Recorded since November)