Newest Additions to the Library
Newest Additions to the Library
Lectures & Webinars | Upcoming Holidays and Commemorations | Upcoming Anniversaries
Anti-Semitism | Biography | History | Holocaust | Israel
Judaism | The Middle East | Myths & Facts | Peace Process | Public Opinion Polls
Terrorism | U.S.-Israel Relations | Virtual Jewish World
Arab Funding of American Universities: Donors, Recipients, and Impact [UPDATED]
Lectures & Webinars
- From Persecution to Renewal: Nação Business Law and Practices (Part 2) (October 19, 2025)
- The Invisible Alliance that Undermines America’s Middle East Interests (September 30, 2025)
- From Persecution to Renewal: New Christians and Reverts: Inquisitors and Rabbis (Part 1) (September 14, 2025)
- Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler’s Camps (September 3, 2025)
- Follow the Money: Arab Funding’s Grip on U.S. Campuses (May 14, 2025)
- Inventing Palestine? Mapping the Myths and Realities of a Contested Land (April 23, 2025)
- Diplomacy at the UN - An Israeli Insider’s Perspective (April 9, 2025)
- Iran’s Race for the Bomb: Israel, the U.S., and the Path Forward (February 19, 2025)
- Lectures & Webinars
Upcoming Holidays and Commemorations
- Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day (November 2, 2025)
- Sigd (November 19-20, 2025)
- Chanukah (December 14-22, 2025)
Upcoming Anniversaries
- Levi Eshkol is Born in Ukraine (October 25, 1895)
- United Nations Is Established (October 24, 1945)
- Berlin-Rome Axis Formed (October 25, 1936)
- Half Of Norway’s 1,600 Jews Deported to Auschwitz (October 25, 1942)
- Egypt, Jordan & Syria Sign Tripartite Military Alliance (October 25, 1956)
- London Sunday Times Publishes Dimona Photos Stolen by Vanunu (October 26, 1986)
- Israel & Jordan Sign Treaty of Peace (October 26, 1994)
- Israel Strikes Military Targets in Three Locations Across Iran (October 26, 2024)
- The Last “Public” Auto Da Fe Held in Portugal (October 27, 1765)
- Sultan Abdulmecid I Issued Firman Against Blood Libels (October 27, 1840)
- Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (October 27, 1978)
- Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre (October 27, 2018)
- Ground operations for Iron Swords War Begin (October 27, 2023)
- Degania, Israel’s First Kibbutz, Officially Established (October 28, 1910)
- Turkey Enters World War I (October 28, 1914)
- German Ambassador Reports Pope Pius XII Did Not Object to Deportation of Rome’s Jews (October 28, 1943)
- Provisional State of Israel Unveils Official National Flag (October 28, 1948)
- Nostra Aetate (October 28, 1965)
- PLO Recognized as Sole Legitimate Representative of the Palestinians (October 28, 1974)
- Backed by UK & France, Israel Launches Suez Campaign (October 29, 1956)
- Killing of 47 Israeli Arabs at Kfar Kassem (October 29, 1956)
- Egyptian-Israeli Military Talks Begin at Kilometer 101 (October 29, 1973)
- U.S. Citizens Born in Jerusalem Can List Israel as Birthplace (October 29, 2020)
- Israel’s Ground Invasion of Gaza Begins (October 29, 2023)
- Herzl Published Altneuland (October 30, 1902)
- Benito Mussolini Became Premier of Italy (October 30, 1922)
- US, UK, USSR & China Join Forces at the Moscow Conference (October 30, 1943)
- Last Use of Gas Chambers at Auschwitz (October 30, 1944)
- Madrid Peace Conference Opens (October 30, 1991)
- Jews Ordered Expelled from Portugal (October 31, 1497)
- Massive Earthquake Destroys Much of Safed (October 31, 1759)
- Beersheba, First City in Palestine, Captured by British in WWI (October 31, 1917)
- Death of Houdini (October 31, 1926)
- Nazis Establish Belzec Extermination Camp (November 1, 1941)
- Night of the Railways (November 1, 1945)
- Sixth Knesset Elections (November 1, 1965)
- Israeli Elections Results in Dead Heat (November 1, 1988)
- Golda Meir meets with President Nixon at the White House (November 1, 1973)
- UK Endorses the Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917)
- Rioters Attack Jews in Egypt (November 2, 1945)
- Ben-Gurion Regains Premiership (November 2, 1955)
Anti-Semitism
- Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) [Updated]
- Social Media and the Normalization of Hate: October 7 Two Years On
- ADL-JFNA Report - Portrait of Anti-Semitic Experiences in the U.S., 2024-2025 (October 6, 2025)
- Campus Divestment Resolutions in the USA [Updated]
- Jewish Faculty Experiences on Campus After the 2023 Hamas Attack on Israel (September 10, 2025)
- B’nai B’rith Report: Antisemitism at European Universities (August 26, 2025)
- Incidents of Hate Crimes Against Jews in the U.S. Graph [Updated]
- Anti-Jewish and Anti-Islamic Hate Crimes in the U.S. Graph [Updated]
- Statistics on Religious Hate Crimes [Updated]
- UK Board of Deputies Report: Commission on Anti-Semitism (July 2025))
Biography
- Sheldon and Miriam Adelson [Updated]
- Yuli Edelstein [Updated]
- Tzachi Hanegbi [Updated]
- Joel Mokyr
- Zeev Buium
- Claude Levy-Strauss
- Sidney Mintz
- Meyer Fortes
- Benjamin Irving Rouse
- Franz Boas
- Itamar Ben Gvir [Updated]
- Michael Landon
- William Shatner [Updated]
History
- Crémieux Decree (October 24, 1870)
- The Savage Murder of Private Feld (January 21, 2021)
- Background & Overview of the UN Partition Plan [Updated]
- UN Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA): History & Overview [Updated]
- Palestinian Authority: History and Overview [Updated]
- Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): History & Overview [Updated]
- Albert Einstein Letter to Dr. Frank Kingdon (September 3, 1942)
- What is Genocide?
- Legal Aspects of Jewish Slavery Law in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam
- World War I (WWI) (1914 - 1918)
- The Psychological Origin of the 1300-Year-Old Arab-Israeli War: How History Must Guide Policy Making
- The Ark of the Convenant [Updated]
- The Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919)
- Franco-British Agreement on Northern Border (March 7, 1923)
- Ben-Gurion Visits Eisenhower (March 10, 1960)
Holocaust
- The Warsaw Ghettos Uprising [Updated]
- Bibliography & Bookstore: The Holocaust & World War II [Updated]
- Martin Niemöller: The Failure to Speak Up Against the Nazis [Updated]
- Women during the Holocaust
- Hidden Children in the Holocaust: Daily Life
- Ratlines: Nazi Escape Routes After World War II
- Hartheim Euthanasia Center
- Background & Overview of the Nazi Euthanasia (T-4) Program [Updated]
- Claims Conference Report: Analysis of the Declining Population of Holocaust Survivors (April 2025)
- The Last Nazi Trials [Updated]
- Pope Pius XII & the Holocaust [Updated]
- President Trump’s Statement on the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz (January 27, 2025)
- President Isaac Herzog’s Remarks on the 80th Anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau Liberation (January 27, 2025)
- World War II: No. 3 (Jewish) Troop of the No. 10 Commando [Updated]
Israel
- Sports in Israel [Updated]
- The UN Relationship with Israel [Updated]
- The Israel-Hamas War: Western International Responses [Updated]
- The Israel-Hamas War: The Intelligence Failure [Updated]
- The Israel-Hamas War: The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza [Updated]
- The Israel-Hamas War: Casualties [Updated]
- IDF Casualties Fighting Hamas and Hezbollah After 10/7 Massacre [Updated]
- The Israel-Hamas War: Operation Strength and Sword and Gideon’s Chariots [Updated]
- The University of Haifa [Updated]
- The Israel-Hamas War: The Hostages [Updated]
- Israel Strikes Iran: Operation Rising Lion [Updated]
- Israel Accused of “Genocide” at the International Court of Justice [Updated]
- Or Eitan (Iron Beam) Laser Defense System [Updated]
- Israel Defense Forces: History and Overview [Updated]
- Latest Population Statistics for Israel [Updated]
- Women of the Israel Defense Forces, Air Force, Navy, & Special Forces [Updated]
- The Israel-Hamas War: Hezbollah Joins the Fight [Updated]
- Graph of Israeli Population Growth (1948 -Present) [Updated]
- Percentage of the Israeli Population that is Jewish (1993 - Present) [Updated]
- Vital Statistics: Population of Israel (1948 - Present) [Updated]
- Israel: Population by Religion (September 14, 2023) [Updated]
- Operation Iron Wall [Updated]
- Jewish Population of Israel Relative to World Jewish Population [Updated]
- The Israel-Hamas War: Hostage Testimonies [Updated]
Judaism
- Jews of Algeria [Updated]
- Anti-Defamation League (ADL) [Updated]
- Slavery in Judaism [Updated]
- Jews of Iraq [Updated]
- Jews of Syria [Updated]
- The World’s Richest Jew [Updated]
- Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in the United States [Updated]
- Jews of Tunisia [Updated]
- Jews of Iran [Updated]
- Jews of Morocco [Updated]
- A History of Lancaster, Ohio’s Jewish Community
- Jews in Islamic Countries: Yemen
- Jews in Islamic Countries: Syria [Updated]
- Religious Adherents, Worldwide [Updated]
- Jews in the Second Trump Administration [Updated]
- Jewish American Heritage Month, 2025 (May 16, 2025)
- Jews in Hockey (International) [Updated]
- A History of Zanesville’s Jewish Community
The Middle East
- ICJ Advisory Opinion: Israel’s Conduct Toward UN and Third States in the “Occupied Territories” (October 22, 2025)
- History & Overview of UNRWA [Updated]
- The Israel-Hamas War: The Day After [Updated]
- The Israel-Hamas War: Arab/Muslim and Palestinians Supporters’ Reaction [Updated]
- CENTCOM Opens Civil-Military Coordination Center to Support Gaza Stabilization (October 21, 2025)
- Iran Continues to Advance Nuclear Program [Updated]
- America Strikes Iran - Operation Midnight Hammer [Updated]
- Iran Nuclear History: The Final Deal [Updated]
- Timeline of Nuclear Diplomacy With Iran [Updated]
- History of Modern Syria [Updated]
- The Israel-Hamas War: The Invasion Plan [Updated]
- The Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity (October 13, 2025)
- Return to Maximum Pressure on Iran [Updated]
- History of Modern Jordan [Updated]
Myths & Facts
- War protestors have applauded the Gaza ceasefire.
- The United Nations has no bias toward Israel.
- Israel illegally intercepted flotillas to Gaza. [Updated]
- Hollywood figures pledging not to work with Israel promote peace.
- Recognizing a Palestinian state would end the conflict with Israel. [Updated]
- Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. [Updated]
- Israel violated international norms when it targeted Hamas leaders in Doha.
- Did genocide scholars vote that Israel was engaged in genocide?
- The E1 project threatens the establishment of a Palestinian state.
- Israel has been diplomatically isolated since October 7.
- Israel targeted an Al Jazeera journalist in violation of international law.
- Israel is weaponizing humanitarian aid to Gaza. [Updated]
- The Palestinians have a “right of return” to resettle in modern-day Israel.
Peace Process
- Saudi-Israel Relations [Updated]
- Ehud Olmert’s Peace Offer [Updated]
- American Attitudes Toward the Peace Process [Updated]
- Netanyahu Expresses Support for Two-State Solution (June 9, 2015)
- Overview of Israel-Jordan Cooperation [Updated]
- Overview of Israel-Palestinian Water Issue [Updated]
- Map of Palestinian Autonomy [Updated]
- Mahmoud Abbas and Peace [Updated]
Public Opinion Polls
- Israeli Views on Society & Government [Updated]
- American Polls: Attitudes Toward the Peace Process [Updated]
- American Opinion Toward Israeli Operations in Gaza [Updated]
- American Opinion Regarding U.S. Middle East Policy [Updated]
- American Public Opinion Polls: Views Toward Foreign Aid [Updated]
- AJC Surveys of American Jewish Opinion [Updated]
- Opinions of Israeli Jews and Israeli/Palestinian Arabs Toward Each Other [Updated]
- Israeli Opinions On Fighting with Hamas [Updated]
- American Public Opinion Polls: Opinion Toward the 2015 Iran Deal and Aftermath [Updated]
- American Opinion Toward Israel As A Friend And Ally [Updated]
- Palestinian Views on Palestinian Society [Updated]
- Palestinian Views on Internal Politics [Updated]
- American Jewish Student Opinion and Anti-Semitism [Updated]
- Palestinian Attitudes Toward Peace with Israel [Updated]
- Arab Attitudes Toward Normalization and the Abraham Accords [Updated]
- Palestinian Opinion on War in Gaza [Updated]
- Survey of American Jews’ Political Values [Updated]
- American Jewish Opinion Toward Israel [Updated]
- American Jewish Opinion Regarding Anti-Semitism [Updated]
- British Attitudes Toward Jews & Israel [Updated]
- Palestinian Attitudes about the U.S. [Updated]
- American Polls: Attitudes Toward the Peace Process (2009 - Present) [Updated]
- Israeli Polls Regarding Peace with the Palestinians and a Palestinian State (1978 - Present) [Updated]
Terrorism
- History & Overview of Hezbollah [Updated]
- UN Watch Report: Schools in the Grip of Terror (September 17, 2025)
- Rocket & Mortar Attacks Against Israel by Date [Updated]
- Comprehensive Listing of Terrorism Victims in Israel [Updated]
- Israel Counter-Terrorism: Targeted Killings of Terrorists [Updated]
- Hamas: Background & Overview [Updated]
- American Victims of Terrorist Attacks [Updated]
- Attacks Targeting American Jews [Updated]
- Henry Jackson Society Report: Hamas’s Human Shield Strategy in Gaza (May 4, 2025)
- The Muslim Brotherhood [Updated]
- Hostages Forum Medical Report: The Condition of the 24 Living Hostages in Gaza (April 7, 2025)
- Terrorist Bombings in Argentina [Updated]
- Justice Department Announces Launch of Joint Task Force October 7
- Palestinian Authority Financing of Terrorism [Updated]
U.S.-Israel Relations
- U.S.-Israel Relations: A Special Alliance [Updated]
- U.S.-Israel Intelligence Collaboration [Updated]
- President Trump and Israel During His Second Term [Updated]
- History & Overview of U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel [Updated]
- The Evolution of the U.S.-Israel Strategic Alliance [Updated]
- President Donald Trump’s Address to the Knesset (October 13, 2025)
- Trump Letter Accepting Invitation to Address Knesset (October 10, 2025)
- The “Secret” U.S. Base in Israel - Site 512
- The Israel-Hamas War: U.S. Policy [Updated]
- Israel Invites President Donald Trump to Deliver Remarks in the Knesset (October 9, 2025)
- Trump’s Letter to the Hostage and Missing Families Forum (October 7, 2025)
- The Pro-Israel & Pro-Arab Lobbies [Updated]
- Arab and Israeli Spending on U.S. Lobbyists
- Excerpts from President Trump’s United Nations General Assembly Speech Concerning Israel, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East (September 23, 2025)
- U.S. Presidential Message on Rosh Hashanah (September 22, 2025)
- The Biden Administration and Israel [Updated]
- U.S. State Department Press Release: Imposing Further Sanctions in Response to the ICC’s Ongoing Threat to Americans and Israelis (August 20, 2025)
- U.S. Department of State 2024 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: Israel (August 12, 2025)
- Arkansas-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
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