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

• Tisha B’Av (August 6-7, 2022)

Upcoming Anniversaries

• Israel Annexes Jerusalem (June 27, 1967)*
• Israel Adopts “Protection of Holy Places” Law (June 27, 1967)
• Air France Jet Hijacked To Entebbe (June 27, 1976)
• Birthday of Comedian Mel Brooks (June 28, 1926)
• Jassy Massacre in Romania (June 28, 1941)
• Soviet Treason Charges Against Anatoly (Nathan) Sharansky (June 28, 1977)
• Black Sabbath Massacre of Jews in Algiers (June 29, 1805)
• Black Sabbath in Palestine (June 29, 1946)
• Fifty-Four Irgun and Lehi Prisoners Escape From Eritrea (June 29, 1946)
• “Night Of The Long Knives” (June 29-30, 1934)
• 39 Nations Agree to Find Art Stolen During Holocaust (June 30, 1998)
• Death of Yitzhak Shamir (June 30, 2012)
• Charter of Duke Friedrich II of Austria Is Issued (July 1, 1244)
• Cossacks Defeated and Polish Jews Allowed To Return (July 1, 1651)
• Switzerland’s Special Taxes On Jews Abolished (July 1, 1798)
• David Yulee Became First Jew Elected To The Senate (July 1, 1845)
• Sir Herbert Samuel Appointed High Commissioner of Palestine (July 1, 1920)
• Mickey Marcus Buried At West Point (July 1, 1948)
• Israel’s Defense Attaché In Washington Murdered (July 1, 1973)
• Yasser Arafat Returns To Gaza From Exile (July 1, 1994)
• Birthday Of Jewish Nobel Laureate In Physics Hans Bethe (July 2, 1906)
• Pope Boniface IX Forbade Christians To Harm Jews (July 2, 1389)
• Vichy Government Formed (July 2, 1940)
• Alois Brunner Became Commander Of Drancy (July 2, 1943)
• Pope Innocent IV Issued The Papal Bull Against Blood Libels (July 3, 1247)
• Theodor Herzl Dies (July 3, 1904)
• Madagascar Plan (July 3, 1940)
• Munich Massacre Mastermind Abu Daoud Dies In Syria (July 3, 2010)
• Birthday of Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883)

Anti-Semitism

• State Anti-BDS Legislation [Updated]
• States Adopt IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism [Updated]
• International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Definition of Anti-Semitism [Updated]
• The Great Replacement Theory
• Phony Claims of Victory by the BDS Movement [Updated]
• House Passes Res. 1125 Condemning Rising Anti-Semitism
• Campus Divestment Resolutions in the USA [Updated]
• Concerts in Israel by Year [Updated]
• Professional Academic Associations and the Boycott of Israel [Updated]
• Anti-Semitic Incidents in the United States Graph [Updated]
• Anti-Semitic Incidents On U.S. Campuses Graph [Updated]
• Companies that Boycott Israel in Violation of State Laws [Updated]
• Minister Louis Farrakhan - In His Own Words [Updated]
• Critical Race Theory and the Jewish Community [Updated]
• University Statements Rejecting Divestment and the Academic Boycott of Israel [Updated]
• Entertainment Industry Leaders Protest Cultural Boycott of Israel
• Companies that Boycott Israel in Violation of State Laws by State [Updated]

Biography

• A.B. Yehoshua [Updated]
• Pope Francis [Updated]
• Heinrich Mueller [Updated]
• Danny Danon [Updated]
• Jan Karski [Updated]
• Harry Errington
• Yusuf Al-Qaradawi [Updated]
• Bob Dylan [Updated]
• Avi Dichter [Updated]
• Benjamin Bibi Netanyahu [Updated]
• Haym Salomon [Updated]
• Moses [Updated]
• Yisrael Katz [Updated]
• Avigdor Lieberman [Updated]
• Hans Zimmer [Updated]
• Marcel Marceau [Updated]
• Randy Grossman
• Gal Gadot [Updated]

History

• U.S. Congress Endorses the Balfour Declaration [Updated]
• Origins of the Name “Palestine” and Palestinian Nationalism [Updated]
• A Land without a People for a People without a Land
• FDR Asks Hull to Raise Issue of European Refugees (July 3, 1940)
• Long Expresses Concern With Undesirable Immigrants (September 18, 1940)
• Background & Overview of First Lebanon War [Updated]
• Operation Mincemeat
• History & Overview of the Palestinian Refugees [Updated]
• Alaska Jewish History [Updated]
• Quotes from Arab and Islamic Leaders Regarding Jews and Israel [Updated]
• Radical Messianic Zionism [Updated]
• Pogroms [Updated]
• Lohamei Herut Israel (Lehi or Stern Gang) [Updated]
• The Agranat Commission
• Letter to the Jewish Nation From Napoleon
• Timeline of Ethiopian Jewish History [Updated]

Holocaust

• Pope Pius XII & the Holocaust [Updated]
• Background & Overview of Kristallnacht [Updated]
• Holocaust Quiz [Updated]
• Children’s Aid Society (Oeuvre De Secours Aux Enfants - OSE)
• SS Orders Expulsion of Soviet Jews From Germany (January 5, 1938)
• Was Hitler Jewish? [Updated]
• The Bermuda Conference [Updated]
• The Bermuda Conference On Refugees: Documents And Essays
• Text of Final Communiqué of Bermuda Conference
• Bermuda Conference Summary of Recommendations
• History & Overview of Buchenwald [Updated]
• The Children of Izieu [Updated]
• U.S. States Requiring Holocaust Education in Schools [Updated]
• Dachau War Crimes Trials [Updated]

Israel

• 2021 Israeli Election to the 24th Knesset [Updated]
• Legal Terms of Abortion in Israel [Updated]
• Arizona Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Israel-UAE Relations [Updated]
• Israel-Bahrain Relations [Updated]
• Turkey-Israel Relations [Updated]
• How Israel Used Innovation To Beat Its Water Crisis
• The UN Relationship with Israel [Updated]
• Saudi - Israel Relations [Updated]
• Military Threats to Israel: Syria [Updated]
• Israeli Cooperation with Africa [Updated]
• Reports on Religious Freedom: Israel 2021
• The Pro-Israel & Pro-Arab Lobbies [Updated]
• Israel Quiz [Updated]
• The Temple Mount [Updated]
• The Situation of Ethiopian Jews in Israel [Updated]
• Guns and Gun Violence in Israel [Updated]
• Oil & Natural Gas in Israel [Updated]

Judaism

• Jews in Hockey (International) [Updated]
• Jews in the Biden Administration [Updated]
• Wisconsin Jewish History
• The History of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington [Updated]
• Joseph’s Tomb [Updated]
• Jews in Major League Baseball (MLB) [Updated]
• Neturei Karta [Updated]
• Belz Hasidic Dynasty [Updated]
• Jews of Yemen [Updated]
• Jewish Artists  [Updated]
• Jewish Medal of Honor Recipients
• Medicine & Law [Updated]
• Jewish Population of the World [Updated]
• Jews in the National Football League (NFL) [Updated]
• Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs (Ma’arat HaMachpelah) [Updated]
• Trends in American Jewish Demography [Updated]
• Total Jewish Population in the United States [Updated]
• Debate Over the Number of American Jews

The Middle East

• Military Options Against Iran [Updated]
• Map of the Gaza Strip
• Reports on Religious Freedom: Algeria 2021
• Biden and Iran Sanctions [Updated]
• EU Study Confirms Incitement in Palestinian Textbooks [Updated]
• Reports on Religious Freedom: Iran 2021
• Reports on Religious Freedom: Egypt 2021
• Reports on Religious Freedom: West Bank and Gaza 2021
• Press Freedom in the Middle East [Updated]
• Iran Continues to Advance Nuclear Program [Updated]
• Biden Resumes Aid to Palestinians [Updated]
• U.S. Bilateral Assistance to the Palestinians [Updated]
• Iran’s Sponsorship of Terror [Updated]
• Senate Resolutions to Prevent Iran from Obtaining A Nuclear Weapon
• Christians in the Palestinian Authority [Updated]
• The Arabs in Palestine [Updated]
• Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF)
• Biden Contemplates New Iran Deal [Updated]

Myths & Facts

• Israel’s blockade of Gaza is collective punishment.
• Israel intentionally kills journalists.
• Palestinians do not violate the human rights of their people.
• The Jews are responsible for the “Nakba” and “Nakba Day” is unrelated to peace.
• As “People of the Book,” Jews and Christians are protected under Islamic law. [Updated]
• Israel persecutes Christians.  [Updated]
• Israel is desecrating the al-Aqsa Mosque and preventing Ramadan prayers.
• Israel expelled one million Palestinians. [Updated]
• The United States has always supported Israel at the UN.  [Updated]
• Israel should be sanctioned like Russia.
• Israel created Hamas. [Updated]
• Only Israel opposes a U.S. return to the Iran nuclear deal.
• Terrorism directed at Israel is motivated by politics, not religion. [Updated]
• The Palestinian Authority prevents and condemns terrorism [Updated]
• Palestinians oppose terrorism. [Updated]
• Israel created Hamas. [Updated]
• Israel is responsible for blockading Gaza.
• Israel “occupies” the West Bank. [Updated]
• America’s Arab allies support U.S. positions at the UN. [Updated]
• Israel illegally demolished the home of a family in Sheikh Jarrah.
• Israel is trying to silence Palestinian human rights groups. [Updated]
• Iran does not believe that it can win a nuclear war.
• The Abraham Accords were a betrayal of the Palestinians.
• Israel was created to compensate the Jews for the Holocaust.

Peace Process

• The Negev Summit
• Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II) [Updated]
• The “Consensus” Settlements [Updated]
• Overview of Israel-Jordan Cooperation [Updated]
• Morocco Agrees To Normalize Relations With Israel
• Israel-Syria Negotiations [Updated]
• The Kerry Initiative (July 29, 2013 - April 23, 2014)
• No Peace Without Compromise [Updated]
• 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]
• Bennett and Gantz Renew Relations With Palestinian Authority
• History & Overview of Israel-Palestinian Negotiations [Updated]
• Facts About Jewish Settlements in the West Bank [Updated]

Public Opinion Polls

• American Jewish Students and Anti-Semitism [Updated]
• American Attitudes Toward the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement [Updated]
• American Attitudes Toward the Peace Process [Updated]
• Favorability Polls [Updated]
• American Attitudes Regarding Jerusalem [Updated]
• Arab Attitudes Toward the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict [Updated]
• Palestinian Attitudes Toward Peace with Israel [Updated]
• Palestinian Attitudes about the U.S. [Updated]
• Palestinian Views on Palestinian Society [Updated]
• American Jewish Opinion Regarding Anti-Semitism [Updated]
• The Jewish Electorate [Updated]
• American Opinion Toward the 2015 Iran Deal and Aftermath [Updated]
• Gallup Polls on American Sympathy Toward Israel and the Arabs/Palestinians [Updated]
• Americans Overestimate Population of Jews and Others
• Attitudes of Israeli Arabs [Updated]

Terrorism

• Background & Overview of Hamas [Updated]
• Palestinian Authority Financing of Terrorism [Updated]
• Comprehensive Listing of Terrorism Victims in Israel [Updated]
• Rocket & Mortar Attacks Against Israel by Date [Updated]
• Shootings Targeting American Jews [Updated]
• Number of Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel Graph [Updated]
• Number of Terrorism Fatalities in Israel [Updated]
• Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF)
• Middle East Country Reports on Terrorism [Updated]
• Reports on International Terrorism [Updated]

U.S.-Israel Relations

• U.S.-Israel Relations: A Special Alliance [Updated]
• Visits to U.S. By Leaders of Israel
• The Biden Administration and Israel [Updated]
• Stop Iranian Drones Act
• Montana - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Vermont-Israel Cooperation [Updated]

The Virtual Jewish World

• Tunisia [Updated]
• Los Angeles [Updated]
• Norway [Updated]
• Pakistan [Updated]
• Russia [Updated]
• Iran [Updated]
• Moscow [Updated]
• Sudan [Updated]
• Mexico [Updated]
• Vermont
• Montana
• Iraq [Updated]
• Morocco [Updated]
• Australia [Updated]
• Pilsen, Czech Republic [Updated]
• Germany [Updated]
• Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine [Updated]