Newest Additions to the Library

Newest Additions to the Library

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

Upcoming Holidays and Commemorations

• Sigd (November 3-4, 2021)
• Chanukah (November 28-December 6, 2021)

Upcoming Anniversaries

• Algerian Jews Granted French Citizenship By The Crémieux Decree (October 24, 1870)
• Britain Declares Support for Arab Independence in Middle East (October 24, 1915)
• United Nations Is Established (October 24, 1945)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Backed by UK & France, Israel Launches Suez Campaign (October 29, 1956)
• Killing of 47 Israeli Arabs at Kfar Kassem (October 29, 1956)
• 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)
• Nazis Establish Belzec Extermination Camp (November 1, 1941)
• Night Of The Railways (November 1, 1945)
• Dead Heat In Israel Elections (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)
• Israeli Election Results in Dead Heat Between Peres And Shamir (November  2, 1988)
• Poland Declares Independence From Russia (November 3, 1918)
• The First Neighborhood Outside Old City Dedicated (November 3, 1860)
• Syria, Egypt Sign Defense Treaty (November 4, 1966)
• Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated (November 4, 1995)
• Rioters Attack Jews In Libya (November 5, 1945)
• Meir Kahane Assassinated in New York (November 5, 1990)
• Linda Lingle Is Elected First Jewish Governor Of Hawai’i (November 5, 2002)
• Hovevei Zion established (November 6-8, 1884)
• Lehi Assassinates Lord Moyne (November 6, 1944)
• Allied Forces Take Control Of Suez (November 6, 1956)
• Morocco’s King Declares Zero Tolerance For Anti-Semitism (November 6, 2000)
• Jews Permitted To Live In Hamburg (November 7, 1612)
• Birthday Of Jewish Revolutionary Leon Trotsky (November 7, 1879)
• Herschel Grynszpan Assassinates Ernst vom Rath (November 7, 1938)
• Hannah Szenes Executed (November 7, 1944)
• Palmach Disbanded (November 7, 1948)

Anti-Semitism

• Anti-Semitic Palestinian Cartoons [Updated]
• EU Strategy on Combating Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life
• International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Definition of Anti-Semitism [Updated]
• Swedish Government: It Is Everyone’s Duty To Stand Up Against Anti-Semitism
• Companies that Boycott Israel in Violation of State Laws [Updated]
• Companies that Boycott Israel in Violation of State Laws by State [Updated]
• Statistics on Religious Hate Crimes [Updated]
• Background & Overview of the Arab Boycott of Israel [Updated]
• The History of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement [Updated]
• Senate Passes Bipartisan Resolution Condemning Anti-Semitism
• Campus Divestment Resolutions in the USA [Updated]
• State Anti-BDS Legislation [Updated]

Biography

• Ralph Bunche [Updated]
• Aristides de Sousa Mendes [Updated]
• Joshua Angrist
• Alexander Hamilton [Updated]
• David Julius
• Theodore Dannecker
• Ayelet Zurer
• Barbra Streisand [Updated]
• Zalkind Hourwitz
• Pope Francis [Updated]
• Sid Youngelman
• Pope Pius XII [Updated]
• Ron Arad [Updated]
• Ida Nudel [Updated]
• Ryan Braun [Updated]
• Sgt. Benjamin (Benny) Berg (Isenberg)
• Dan Shapiro [Updated]
• Ed Asner [Updated]
• Rahm Emanuel [Updated]
• David Ben-Gurion [Updated]
• Arthur Nebe [Updated]

History

• Rare 2,700-Year-Old Toilet Uncovered in Jerusalem
• Origins of the Name “Palestine” and Palestinian Nationalism [Updated]
• History & Overview of the UN Human Rights Council [Updated]
• The History of Jews in Latin America
• History & Overview of the Golan Heights [Updated]
• Socialist/Labor Zionism [Updated]
• Background & Overview of the War of Attrition [Updated]
• The Evolution of Israel’s Africa Policy [Updated]
• Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the 1920-21 Arab Riots (October 1921)  [Updated]
• Jewish Reaction Patterns
• Total Casualties, Arab-Israeli Conflict [Updated]
• Disputation of Barcelona [Updated]

Holocaust

• Labor and Internment Camps in North Africa
• Mary Berg: An American in the Warsaw Ghetto
• Vittel Internment Camp
• The Babi Yar Massacre [Updated]
• History & Overview of Bergen-Belsen [Updated]
• Belsen Prisoners Exchanged For Germans (June 1944)
• U.S. Airmen Sent to Buchenwald
• Holocaust Quiz [Updated]
• Pope Pius XII Saved Hundreds of Jews
• Dachau War Crimes Trials [Updated]
• Pope Pius XII & the Holocaust [Updated]
• The Sturmabteilung (SA)
• Adolf Hitler: Life in Photographs [Updated]
• Lions of Judah: The Jewish Commandos of the SIG
• U.S.-Germany Dialogue on Holocaust Issues

Israel

• Background & Overview of the Arab Boycott of Israel [Updated]
• Women in the IDF Air Force, Navy, & Special Forces [Updated]
• Israel-UAE Relations [Updated]
• Israeli Law Enforcement [Updated]
• Joint International “Blue Flag”  Air Force Exercise
• The Status of Arabs in Israel [Updated]
• Israel Is Nothing Like the the Afrikaner Government in South Africa [Updated]
• Overview of Israel-Jordan Cooperation [Updated]
• “Chen” Women’s Corps and Women in Today’s IDF [Updated]
• Martin Luther King on Peace and Security for Israel
• First Israeli Woman to Reach Summit of Mt. Everest
• Concerts in Israel by Year [Updated]
• History & Overview of Haifa [Updated]
• Israel-China Relations [Updated]
• Israel’s Mission to the Moon [Updated]
• India-Israel Relations [Updated]
• Doctors and Nurses in Israel Compared to OECD
• Directors of the Israeli Security Agency/Shabak/Shin Bet [Updated]
• The UN Relationship with Israel [Updated]
• Expansion of the Abraham Accords
• Elon Moreh [Updated]
• Jerusalem: An Introduction [Updated]
• Sheikh Jarrah [Updated]

Judaism

• Jewish Nobel Prize Laureates [Updated]
• Takkanah
• Jews and the Wine and Liquor Trade
• Jews in the Biden Administration [Updated]
• Jews of Iraq [Updated]
• A History of Jewish Life in the Upper Miami Valley
• Jews in the National Football League (NFL) [Updated]
• Jewish Voting Record in U.S. Presidential Elections [Updated]
• Jewish Olympic Medalists [Updated]
• Breslov Judaism — Questions & Answers

The Middle East

• Quotes from Arab and Islamic Leaders Regarding Jews and Israel [Updated]
• Saudi Textbooks Show Improvement
• Military Options Against Iran [Updated]
• Total Palestinian Refugees [Updated]
• History & Overview of UNRWA [Updated]
• UNRWA in Figures (2020)
• Palestinian Population Statistics [Updated]
• Iran Continues to Advance Nuclear Program [Updated]
• Biden Contemplates New Iran Deal [Updated]
• Biden and Iran Sanctions [Updated]
• Biden Resumes Aid to Palestinians [Updated]
• Sanctions On Iran Provoke Fears About Oil Prices [Updated]
• The Palestine Arab Congress
• U.S. Aid to Palestinians in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic [Updated]
• Iranian Intelligence Officials Indicted on Kidnapping Conspiracy Charges
• Religious Freedom in the Middle East 2020
• Iran’s Nuclear Archive [Updated]
• EU Study Confirms Incitement in Palestinian Textbooks [Updated]

Myths & Facts

• Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza boycott Israel.
• Boycott advocates are consistent and helping Palestinians.
• Building a permanent bridge to the Temple Mount is an act of religious war.
• Palestinians and their supporters care about Palestinian refugees.
• Israel makes no effort to avoid civilian casualties.
• The Jews have no claim to the land they call Israel.
• A Jewish terrorist tried to burn down the al-Aqsa Mosque.
• Jews have no right to pray on the Temple Mount.
• Hamas does not store weapons in civilian areas.
• The PA is punished for its human rights violations.
• The United States should reopen a consulate in Jerusalem.
• The Nation State Law proves Israel is undemocratic and discriminates against Arabs. [Updated]
• Most of the Palestinian casualties in Operation Guardian of the Walls were civilians.
• Israel is trying to kill Palestinians with expired COVID vaccines.
• Israel is engaged in the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians.
• Israel tried to silence journalists by bombing their headquarters in Gaza.
• Israel intentionally killed 248 innocent Palestinians during Operation Guardian of the Wall.
• The Palestinian Authority should get U.S. aid for Gaza because it promotes peace with Israel.
• Israel used disproportionate force in Operation Guardian of the Walls.

Peace Process

• Expansion of the Abraham Accords [Updated]
• An Israeli Model For Peace With The Palestinians
• The Future Borders of Israel & Palestine?
• The Israeli Approach To Wye Negotiations and Subsequent Outcome
• Palestinian Maps Omitting Israel [Updated]
• EU Study Confirms Incitement in Palestinian Textbooks [Updated]
• Overview of Israel-Jordan Cooperation [Updated]
• Bennett and Gantz Renew Relations With Palestinian Authority
• History & Overview of Israel-Palestinian Negotiations [Updated]
• Facts About Jewish Settlements in the West Bank [Updated]
• The Human Cost of Disengagement
• Ceremony for Signing of the Declaration of Principles
• Morocco Establishes Diplomatic Relations with Israel
• Joint Statement of the U.S., Sudan, and Israel Announcing Normalization of Relations
• Background & Overview of 2000 Camp David Summit [Updated]f
• Joint U.S.-Soviet Statement of the Middle East

Public Opinion Polls

• Israeli Jewish Opinion Toward Israeli Arabs [Updated]
• Israeli Views on Society & Government [Updated]
• American Jewish Opinion Toward Israel [Updated]
• American Jewish Opinion Regarding Anti-Semitism [Updated]
• American Opinion Regarding U.S. Middle East Policy [Updated]
• Survey of American Jews’ Political Values [Updated]
• Israeli Attitudes Toward American Jews [Updated]
• Palestinian Opinion on War in Gaza [Updated]
• American Public Opinion: Views Toward Foreign Aid [Updated]
• American Attitudes Toward the Middle East [Updated]
• American Views on Palestinian Statehood [Updated]
• American Opinion Toward Israel As A Friend And Ally [Updated]
• American Opinion Regarding U.S. Middle East Policy [Updated]
• American Opinion Toward Israeli Operations in Gaza [Updated]
• American Opinion Toward the 2015 Iran Deal and Aftermath [Updated]
• Israeli Views on the Establishment of a Palestinian State [Updated]

Terrorism

• Terrorist Bombings in Argentina [Updated]
• Comprehensive Listing of Terrorism Victims in Israel [Updated]
• Background & Overview of Hamas [Updated]
• The Allenby Street Bus Bombing (September 19, 2002)
• FBI Releases Document On Saudi Role in 9/11
• The PFLP Hijacking of Five Planes [Updated]
• Rocket & Mortar Attacks Against Israel by Date [Updated]
• Suicide Bombing on Jerusalem Bus Kills 23 (August 19, 2003)
• Major Palestinian Terror Attacks Since Oslo [Updated]
• American Victims of Terrorist Attacks [Updated]
• Suicide Bomber Kills Nine On Bus (August 4, 2002)
• Palestinian Terrorist Attack At Athens Airport (August 5, 1973)
• Palestinian Authority Financing of Terrorism [Updated]

U.S.-Israel Relations

• Washington-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• US-Israel Joint Air Force Training [Updated]
• John Kennedy On The Myth Zionism Is Cause Of Middle East Problems
• The Biden Administration and Israel [Updated]
• Indiana - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• US-Israel Cooperation on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Plane [Updated]
• U.S. Ambassadors to Israel [Updated]
• History & Overview of U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel [Updated]
• Total U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel (1949-Present) [Updated]
• U.S. Loan Guarantees for Israel [Updated]
• Arrow Missile Program [Updated]
• Iron Dome Supplemental Appropriations Act (HR 5323)
• Arizona-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Israeli Ambassadors to the United States [Updated]
• Photographs of U.S. Presidents with Israeli Prime Ministers [Updated]
• U.S., U.K. and Israeli Air Force F35s Train in Tri-Lightning II Exercise (June 29, 2021)
• U.S., U.K. and Israeli Air Force F35s Train in Tri-Lightning Exercise (June 25, 2019)
• The Evolution of the U.S.-Israel Strategic Alliance [Updated]

The Virtual Jewish World

• Majorca [Updated]
• Morocco [Updated]
• Germany [Updated]
• The Netherlands [Updated]
• Amsterdam [Updated]
• Malmö, Sweden [Updated]
• Canada [Updated]
• Sweden [Updated]
• Ireland [Updated]
• Ukraine [Updated]
• Milan, Italy
• Belgium [Updated]