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Golda Meir
Born in Ukraine and raised in America, she became Israel's first and only female prime minister.
The United Nations Partition Plan of 1947
The details of this ill-fated effort to create a two-state solution for Jews and Palestinians.
A Zionist Hanukkah
Modern Hebrew culture made of Hanukkah a celebration of the new, self-reliant Jew.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
When the Rosenbergs were charged with spying, American Jews feared an anti-Semitic backlash.
Traditional Views of Jewish Chosenness
The Bible implies that God's choice of the Jews was random; later traditions made the Jews seem deserving of this privilege.
Cantillation: Chanting, or Leyning, the Bible
Today the Bible is chanted in synagogues with an intricate musical system, but the practice began with one man projecting in a marketplace.
Heaven and Hell in Jewish Tradition
Jewish sources are conflicted about what happens after we die.
Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam
Amsterdam became a haven for Jewish refugees from the Inquisition.
