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Community Articles/Jewish History
Through 2,000 years of exile, Jews from the four corners of the world always turned in prayer toward Jerusalem. What memory were they so eager to preserve?
08/06/2007 | 416 Hits |  (0 vote) | Print | PDF
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Community Articles/Jewish History
Rosh Hashanah
It is customary to sound the shofar and blow trumpets at the coronation of a king. Similarly, on Rosh Hashanah, we crown G-d. The shofar represents a simple outcry of a person who recognized his spiritual ‘poverty' and whose feelings cannot be contained in word...
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Community Articles/Jewish History
Ptolemy II ruled over the Land of Israel with a friendly attitude toward his Jewish subjects. He was an avid reader, and his gigantic library contained hundreds of thousands of volumes of all the creative authors of ancient times.
07/30/2007 | 285 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF
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Community Articles/Jewish History
George Washington was the first president to write to a synagogue. In 1790 he addressed separate letters to the Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI; to Mikveh Israel Congregation in Savannah, GA; and a joint letter to Congregation Beth Shalom, Richmond, VA; Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia, P...
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Community Articles/Jewish History
In olden times, Sephardic Jews in the Balkan states and Turkey were married very young. The girl was 14 or younger, the husband 18 or 20. It was considered a great humiliation for the parents if their children were still unmarried after that age.
The young people were not allowed to voice thei...
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Community Articles/Jewish History
Houses of Jewish worship, large and small, monumental and humble, once dotted nearly every city and town in the vast and powerful Ottoman Empire and its successor, the Republic of Turkey. Of those synagogues, scores have been abandoned and collapsed, often with little record of their existence. Many...
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Community Articles/Jewish History
There may be those who think that almost all the Jews who came to America during the 19th century left their observance of Judaism in the Old World. While it certainly is true that many Jews became lax in their observance of the precepts of the Torah, there were those who clung steadfastly to the re...
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Community Articles/Jewish History
Last month we left off in 1937, when the British recommended dividing the Land of Israel into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The Jewish leadership accepted the idea and empowered the Jewish Agency to negotiate with the British government in an effort to reformulate various aspects of the propo...
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Community Articles/Jewish History
IMAGE Magazine is going to bring you a different portion of the history of the State of Israel each month. We began, last month, with The History of Zionism, starting with Theodor Herzel and ending with the Balfour Declaration—a letter promising that the British government would try to cre...
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