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

• Rosh HaShanah (September 25-27, 2022)
• Fast of Gedalia (September 28, 2022)
• Yom Kippur (October 4-5, 2022)
• Sukkot (October 9-16 2022)
• Shemini Atzeret (October 16-17, 2022)
• Simchat Torah (October 17-18, 2022)

Upcoming Anniversaries

• Birthday Of Ovadia Yosef (September 23, 1920)
• Death of Sigmund Freud (September 23, 1939)
• Rabin Presents Israeli-PLO Agreement to the Knesset (September 23, 1993)
• PA Leader Abbas Asks UN To Recognize State Of Palestine (September 23, 2011)
• Jews Of Austin, Texas Met And Formed Congregation Beth Israel (September 24, 1876)
• Operation Magic Carpet Ends (September 24, 1950)
• Ralph Bunche Wins Nobel Peace Prize For Negotiations Following 1948 War (September 24, 1950)
• Arabs Riot After Israel Opens Western Wall Tunnel Exit (September 24, 1996)
• Jewish Pitchers Sandy Koufax & Ken Holtzman Face Off In Game (September 25, 1966)
• Kfar Etzion Re-Established (September 25, 1967)
• Israelis Protest Sabra and Shatila Massacre (September 25, 1982)
• Birthday Of Moses Mendelssohn (September 26, 1786)
• Birthday Of Jewish American Composer George Gershwin (September 26, 1898)
• Oil Discovered In Israel (September 26, 1955) 
• Jews Granted Full Rights in France (September 27, 1791)
• Germany, Italy & Japan Join Forces With Tripartite Pact (September 27, 1940)
• Egypt Announces Czech Arms Deal (September 27, 1955) 
• IBM Agrees To Transfer Sorting Machines To Germany (September 28, 1939)
• Egyptian President Gamel Abdel Nasser Dies (September 28, 1970)
• Israel & The PLO Sign Oslo II Peace Accords (September 28, 1995)
• Ariel Sharon Visits Temple Mount And Is Blamed For Second Intifada (September 28, 2000)
• Bar Giora Self-Defense Organization Established (September 29, 1907)
• Syria Given Control Of The Golan Heights (September 29, 1923)
• Babi Yar Massacre (September 29-30, 1941)
• Palestinian Riots Ignite The Second Intifada (September 29, 2000)
• Syria Given Control Of The Golan Heights (September 29, 1923)
• Birthday Of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel (September 30, 1928)
• The Munich Pact Signed (September 30, 1938)
• Al-Dura Hoax (September 30, 2000)
• Haycraft Report Published (October 1921)
• Controversial Sale of AWACS to Saudis (October 1, 1981)
• Raid on the PLO Headquarters in Tunis (October 1, 1985)
• The Capture of Jerusalem by Saladin (October 2, 1187)
• Ben-Gurion Statement Accepting Partition (October 2, 1947)

Anti-Semitism

• States Adopt IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism [Updated]
• International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Definition of Anti-Semitism [Updated]
• Campus Divestment Resolutions in the USA [Updated]
• State Anti-BDS Legislation [Updated]
• The Great Replacement Theory
• Phony Claims of Victory by the BDS Movement [Updated]
• House Passes Res. 1125 Condemning Rising Anti-Semitism
• 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

• Yoram Globus [Updated]
• Gideon Sa’ar  [Updated]
• Benjamin “Benny” Gantz [Updated]
• Ayelet Shaked [Updated]
• Sue Bird [Updated]
• Moshe ben Nachman (Nachmanides/Ramban) [Updated]
• Bezalel Smotrich [Updated]
• Gadi Eisenkot [Updated]
• Yael Arad [Updated]
• Mitchell Schwartz  [Updated]
• Max Fried
• Joc Pederson [Updated]
• Max Horton
• James Caan [Updated]
• Benjamin Mottleson[Updated]

History

• British Atrocities in Palestine During Mandate
• Arab Claims of Jewish Atrocities
• History & Overview of UNRWA [Updated]
• UN Mediator Asks US For Marines to Protect Jerusalem (July 20, 1948)
• Recommendation that US Oppose British Raising Jewish DPs and Arab Refugees in Security Council (July 28, 1948)
• State Opposes UN Mediator’s Request for Marines in Jerusalem (July 21, 1948)
• Theodore Roosevelt Expresses Support For Jewish Control of Palestine
• 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

• Overview of Litigation and Settlement of Case Against Swiss Banks [Updated]
• Warsaw Ghetto Doctors Research Starvation
• The Eichmann Tapes
• The “Blood for Goods” Deal [Updated]
• History & Overview of Treblinka [Updated]
• Hull Advises Roosevelt on Bermuda Refugee Conference (May 7, 1943)
• Holocaust Quiz [Updated]
• The Last Nazi Trials [Updated]
• Pope Pius XII & the Holocaust [Updated]
• Background & Overview of Kristallnacht [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

• Latest Population Statistics for Israel [Updated]
• Population of Israel (1948-Present) [Updated]
• Jewish & Non-Jewish Population of Israel/Palestine (1517-Present) [Updated]
• Jewish Population of Israel Relative to World Jewish Population [Updated]
• Statistics on Life Expectancy in Israel [Updated]
• Turkey-Israel Relations [Updated]
• 2022 Israeli Election to the 25th Knesset [Updated]
• Oil & Natural Gas in Israel [Updated]
• Religious Zionism Party [Updated]
• Israel-UAE Relations [Updated]
• Arab Movement for Renewal (Ta'al) Political Party [Updated]
• HaBayit HaYehudi
• Concerts in Israel by Year [Updated]
• Balad Political Party [Updated]
• United Right Party -  Yamina [Updated]
• Hadash Political Party [Updated]
• Military Threats to Israel: Iran [Updated]
• Investigation of the Death of Shireen Abu Akleh [Updated]
• Italy-Israel Relations [Updated]
• Morocco-Israel Relations [Updated]
• UK-Israel Relations [Updated]
• Japan-Israel Relations [Updated]
• Otzma Yehudit Party [Updated]
• History & Overview of the Knesset [Updated]
• The Mossad [Updated]
• HaMahane HaMamlachti (The National Unity Party)
• New Hope Party
• Legal Terms of Abortion in Israel [Updated]
• Israel Quiz [Updated]

Judaism

• Jewish Population of the World [Updated]
• Jewish Voting Record in U.S. Presidential Elections [Updated]
• Jews in the Biden Administration [Updated]
• Joseph’s Tomb [Updated]
• Jews in Major League Baseball (MLB) [Updated]
• Jews in Hockey (International) [Updated]
• Wisconsin Jewish History
• The History of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington [Updated]
• Neturei Karta [Updated]
• Belz Hasidic Dynasty [Updated]
• Jews of Yemen [Updated]
• Jewish Artists  [Updated]
• Jewish Medal of Honor Recipients
• Medicine & Law [Updated]

The Middle East

• Timeline of Nuclear Diplomacy With Iran [Updated]
• Report on Human Rights Practices for 2021 - Iran
• Biden Resumes Aid to Palestinians [Updated]
• Iran Continues to Advance Nuclear Program [Updated]
• Military Options Against Iran [Updated]
• Background & Overview of the Arab Boycott of Israel [Updated]
• Biden Contemplates New Iran Deal [Updated]
• Biden and Iran Sanctions [Updated]
• Iran’s Space Program [Updated]

Myths & Facts

• Israel intentionally kills journalists. [Updated]
• Gazans did not know or care that PIJ rockets killed Palestinians.
• The only alternative to the nuclear deal was war. [Updated]
• The U.S. always supports Israel. [Updated]
• The U.S. supported creating a Jewish state because of the “Jewish lobby.” [Updated]
• The creation of Israel resulted solely from U.S. pressure. [Updated]
• Israel’s blockade of Gaza is collective punishment. [Updated]
• Palestinians do not violate the human rights of their people.
• The Jews are responsible for the “Nakba” and “Nakba Day” is unrelated to peace.

Peace Process

• The Oslo Accords
• Overview of Israel-Palestinian Water Issue [Updated]
• The Allon Plan
• Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership For Peace Act Of 2020 [Updated]
• Negev Forum Steering Committee Joint Statement (June 27, 2022)
• 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]

Public Opinion Polls

• American Opinion Toward the 2015 Iran Deal and Aftermath [Updated]
• Public Opinion in Iran [Updated]
• Palestinian Attitudes Toward Boycott of Israel [Updated]
• Arab Attitudes Toward the Abraham Accords
• Opinions of Israeli Jews and Israeli/Palestinian Arabs Toward Each Other [Updated]
• Israeli Polls Regarding Peace with the Palestinians and a Palestinian State [Updated]
• Attitudes of East Jerusalem Palestinians
• American Muslim Public Opinion [Updated]
• Palestinian Attitudes Toward Peace with Israel [Updated]
• Palestinian Attitudes about the U.S. [Updated]
• Palestinian Views on Government Infrastructure and Political System [Updated]
• Palestinian Views on Palestinian Society [Updated]
• 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]

Terrorism

• History & Overview of Hezbollah [Updated]
• Background & Overview: Munich Olympic Massacre [Updated]
• U.S. Department of Defense on Killing Qasem Soleimani [Updated]
• Palestine Islamic Jihad [Updated]
• Operation Breaking Dawn [Updated]
• Background & Overview of Hamas [Updated]
• Israeli Targeted Killings of Terrorists [Updated]
• Rocket & Mortar Attacks Against Israel by Date [Updated]
• Palestinian Authority Financing of Terrorism [Updated]
• Comprehensive Listing of Terrorism Victims in Israel [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

• US-Israel Binational Foundation Grants by State [Updated]
• US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) [Updated]
• US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research & Development Fund (BARD) [Updated]
• Weizmann Letter to Truman Following Meeting
• U.S.-Israel Bilateral Trade Statistics
• Memorandum of Understanding on Cybersecurity Cooperation
• University Chairs in Israel Studies [Updated]
• The Pro-Israel & Pro-Arab Lobbies [Updated]
• The Biden Administration and Israel [Updated]
• Joint US-Israel Police & Law Enforcement Training [Updated]
• Binational Industrial Research & Development Foundation (BIRD) [Updated]
• Biden Receives Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor
• U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Joint Declaration

The Virtual Jewish World

• Germany [Updated]
• Ukraine [Updated]
• Prague, Czech Republic  [Updated]
• Kuwait [Updated]
• Montana [Updated]
• Yemen [Updated]
• Oslo, Norway [Updated]
• France [Updated]
• Russia [Updated]
• Iran [Updated]
• Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine [Updated]