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This film documents the 36 hour evacuation of Ethiopian Jews in Operation Solomon, showing the initial step of gathering Ethiopian Jews in Addis Ababa where Jewish Agency personnel processed them, taught the children Hebrew, taught job skills and performed health examinations. The footage depicts the intense drama of the operation.
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A sourcebook presents selected sources related to various aspects and personalities of the Second Temple, Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. Short excerpts about the Temple, sects, diaspora community, Herod, zealots, Rabbi Yohanan Ben Zakkai, the Bar Kochba revolt, Babylon and the legal status of Jews are selected from traditional sources like the Mishna and Talmud and include ecclesiastical writings ...
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This book documents when and what the US government knew about the Nazis' systematic extermination of European Jewry. US policies on immigration, the bombing of Auschwitz and the rescue of Jewish refugees, as well as the responses of American Jewish leaders during the Holocaust, are reviewed. An introduction by Elie Wiesel is provided in the paperback edition.
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The theme of the hero in tzahal is explored in this video. A group of young foreigners come together to explore the tradition of Jewish heroism as an extension of the Maccabee heroes of Hanukka. Their interviews include Yehuda Tagar from the War of Independence, Dina Zaltz from the Yom Kippur War and Benayah Blum, a hero of the Lebanon War.
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This video examines the connection of the Jews of the Orient to Israel by scholars who trace their own family stories and the collective experience of the Jews who -- exiled from their homelands -- lived among the Moslems, longing for Jerusalem and Eretz Yisrael. The culture, traditions and history of the Jews are examined.
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This book offers biographical and historical information on the life and times of the great Torah sages who flourished from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.
The times were marked by frequent travel and expulsions causing shifts in the populations, and consequently differences between Askenazic and Sephardic teachings became less pronounced.
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DuNour takes us on a journey to the Garden of Eden and introduces us to popular Biblical favorites (such as Adam and Eve, Cain, Abel, Noah and his sons) and less discussed ones, including the serpent, Lillith.
We are brought into the story many moons after the flood, and visit with witnesses to the destruction. We see the destruction through one of G-d’s angels Adiel (originally Aziel), who...
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A comic book adventure of a brother and sister who travel to Jerusalem from abroad and, along with their Israeli cousin and become involved in a complicated treasure hunt. Along the way, the youngsters see the connection between their religious knowledge and the sites in Jerusalem.
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This book is a collection of stories set in the Galilee during the British Mandate period. It presents impressions and insights into life during that period, focusing on the customs and relations between the Jews, Arabs and Druze in the Galilee, as well as some of the adventure stories told around their conflicts.
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This detailed work explores the internal society of the Nazi concentration camps and the different types of resistance employed. The author--who participated in such resistance himself--deals with the conditions of the camps, as well as tension and cohesion between groups of prisoners. Most of the research that went into the book is based on conversations with survivors.
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This chapter includes several stories on "Ahavat Eretz Yisrael"--the Jewish yearning for the land of Israel. Included are stories about: Rabbi Yehuda Halevi and two of his poems; a rebbetzin who made aliyah during the period of Ottoman rule; a 19th century Jew who waits for a sign before making aliyah; how the Dreyfus case influenced Herzl, and a Holocaust survivor who makes his way to Eretz Yisra...
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When the hated Syrian-Greek king fills ancient Jerusalem with statues of Greek gods and destroys the Jewish temple, feisty Alexandra takes up pen, ink, and sheet of papyrus and turns “scribe.”
In her scroll, Alexandra records the everyday happenings of her life, as well as the events of the Jewish rebellion led by the Maccabees. When her father joins the resistance against the Greek autho...
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A comprehensive historical survey of the Jewish people and the land of Israel from Biblical times to the present. Emphasizes the Holocaust and the events of World War II that led to the establishment of the State; the struggle to reclaim the soil; and the achievements of modern Israel. The contents are arranged thematically, not chronologically, and present stories which represent historical event...
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This video is a series of short segments about a few of the more interesting archeological finds in Israel. Included are the honeycomb maze of secret caves carved by the Bar Kokhba revolutionaries; a reconstruction of run-off farming discovered in the ruins of the ancient Nabatean city of Avdat; an early Byzantine church and the oldest brothel in Israel (discovered while searching for the ancient...
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And Then There Were Dinosaurs tells the story off the sixth world – that of the dinosaurs – the last world created before the world of man. Apparently – according to this book – it was to the land of Israel G-d turned when asking what to create and the response was “creatures of different shapes and different sizes, who eat different parts of different plants.” This worked very well for a long t...
