423 posts categorized "History"

May 17, 2013: The Surprising Hidden History Of The Kotel
Comments: 11 | Categories: History , Israel
“From the start of the sanctification of the Western Wall, in the 16th century, the traditions in the texts of the Sages were transferred from the western wall of the Temple [itself] to the western [retaining] wall of the Temple...

May 10, 2013: The "Awkward Dilemma" Of The Rogatchover Gaon
Comments: 72 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History , History
Rabbi Yosef Rozin, commonly known as the Rogatchover Gaon, was the hasidic rabbi of Dvinsk connected to the Chabad hasidic dynasty. He also supposedly gave smicha (ordination) to the late Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Scheneerson, although some contend this is...

May 8, 2013: Antiquities Authority: Sharansky Plan For Kotel Sentences "The Most Important Archaeological Site In The State Of Israel To Destruction"
Comments: 13 | Categories: History , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
"I don’t know any intelligent archaeologist who would allow a construction project of that size on the Herodian street. It’s inconceivable, just like building such a structure on the Acropolis…We’re sentencing the most important archaeological site in the State of...

May 7, 2013: Did YU's Harry Ostrer Cook The Genetic Books To Support False Findings Of Ashkenazi Jews Origins?
Comments: 83 | Categories: History , MO & Chardal , Science , Torah & Science
An Israeli researcher alleges that a Yeshiva University professor manipulated data to reach the “false” conclusion that Ashkenazi Jews have a predominantly Middle Eastern genetic origin when in fact their genetic signature is predominantly from the Caucus region of northeast...

April 29, 2013: BBC Cancels Documentary That Claims Most Jews Were Not Exiled By Rome After Temple Destroyed
Comments: 26 | Categories: History , Israel
At last minute, the BBC has canceled a documentary that claims to show that the exile of a large part of the Land of Israel's Jews by the Romans after the Destruction of the Second Temple and the Bar Kokhba...

April 2, 2013: Video: Rare Footage Of Zionist Leader Chaim Weizmann's 1918 Trip To Palestine
Comments: 11 | Categories: History , Israel
Rare silent footage of Chaim Weizmann's trip to the Land of Israel in 1918. Weizmann would later become Israel's first president. The video footage shows early Yishuv leaders and rabbis.

March 6, 2013: Video: MK's Inaugural Knesset Speech Talks About Holocaust Rescuer Rudolph Kasztner
Comments: 63 | Categories: Haredim , History , Israel , Jewish Leadership
Member of Knesset Merav Michaeli's opening speech in the Knesset dealt in part with her grandfather Rudolf (Israel) Kasztner. Kasztner saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, negotiating directly with Nazi leader Adolph Eichmann, yemach shemo, to do so. Oskar...

February 25, 2013: When A Rebbe Banned Modern Medicine, Science, Secular Education And Zionism
Comments: 77 | Categories: Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad Anti-Zionism , Haredim , History , Religion , Torah & Science
The pre-WW2 Munkatcher Rebbe vehemently opposed any secular education for Jews. He also opposed modern medicine and science and, along with the fifth and sixth Lubavticher Rebbes and the Stamar Rebbe, were the leading anti-Zionists of their era. (Lubavitch, Muncatch...

February 17, 2013: Survivors Outraged Over Holocaust Remarks Made By Chabad's Rabbi Manis Friedman
Comments: 218 | Categories: Antisemitism , Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Crime, etc. , Haredim , History , Religion
“Who in fact died and who remained alive had nothing to do with the Nazis,” Rabbi Manis Friedman stated in a speech delivered in Melbourne in the 1980s. “Not a single Jewish child died because of the Nazis … they...

January 18, 2013: Understanding Jewish Divorce In 1884
Comments: 9 | Categories: History
How did a small fur trading post deep in the American Midwest that had recently grown into a small but thriving town understand Jews and Orthodox Judaism? With hostility? Curiosity? A mixture of both? And what does this question have...

January 17, 2013: New Genetic Study Reportedly Proves Khazar Ancestry For Ashkenazi Jews
Comments: 70 | Categories: History , Science , Torah & Science
Ashkenazi Jews are a mix of genetic ancestries, far more of which than previously thought originating in tribes from the Caucasus – a region that sits in between Eastern Europe and Asia between the Black and the Caspian seas. Those...

January 16, 2013: Rabbi Acquitted On Mikva Assault Charge
Comments: 14 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , History
This Month In Jewish History: A dispute over mikva ownership leads to an assault charge against a town's rabbi. From the Grand Forks [North Dakota] Daily Herald, January 25, 1893:

January 3, 2013: 1000 Year Old Afghan "Genizah" Found, Some Documents Brought To Israel
Comments: 2 | Categories: History
A treasure trove of manuscripts written in Hebrew characters have reportedly been rescued from caves in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan, and some have been brought to Israel. 1000 Year Old Afghan "Genizah" Found, Some Documents Brought To Israel...

January 1, 2013: When A Story Fails To Tell The Tale: America's Oldest Synagogue Sues America's Oldest Jewish Congregation Over Torah Ornaments Worth More Than $7 Million
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , History , Sefardim
A disagreement over the ownership of a set of Torah rimonim, finial bells, from Colonial times that is worth millions of dollars has led to competing lawsuits between leaders of the nation's first Jewish congregation and the nation's oldest synagogue....

December 30, 2012: New Study Shows YU Researcher, Others Appear To Have Cooked The Genetic Books To ‘Prove' Middle Eastern Origin Of The Jewish People When One May Not Really Exist
Comments: 153 | Categories: History , Science , Torah & Science
"The various groups of Jews in the world today do not share a common genetic origin. We are talking here about groups that are very heterogeneous and which are connected solely by religion…[the] genome of European Jews is a mosaic...

December 27, 2012: Ancient Jewish Temple Competing With Temple Of David And Solomon Found Only 3 Miles From Temple Mount
Comments: 20 | Categories: History , Israel
“There has been nothing like it in the archaeology of the Land of Israel until now. It’s not one room; it’s a large complex with lots of animal bones all around. We have to recall that [the] Arad [temple] is...

December 22, 2012: Cairo Geniza, Nash Papayrus Fragments Now Online
Comments: 6 | Categories: History
Cambridge University, continuing its project of digitializing its collection of ancient manuscripts, has digitialized and put online its Cairo Geniza collection and its Nash Papayrus fragment – the second oldest Bible fragment known to exist, allowing you to see them,...

December 20, 2012: Naked Archaeologist Sues Critic
Comments: 5 | Categories: Crime, etc. , History , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion
Journalist and T.V. host Simcha Jacobovici has sued Joe Zias, the former Curator of Archaeology and Anthropology for the Israel Antiquities Authority, over criticism Zias leveled against Jacobovici and his work. Zias has allegedly accused Jacobovici of "planting" archaeological evidence...

December 17, 2012: Why Did Jews Get Expelled From England And Parts Of France?
Comments: 111 | Categories: Antisemitism , Crime, etc. , History
Jews were expelled from England in 1290 CE and from parts of France before that. Why did this happen? Was it simple antisemitism? Or did Jews play a role in our own expulsion? The answer may surprise you. Why did...

December 11, 2012: Chabad's Hanukkah Heresy
Comments: 69 | Categories: Chabad , Halakha , Hanukkah , History
Chabad's rabbis again show that ignorance is not only bliss in Crown Heights – it's the new halakha, too. First, a little historical background. All of the hundreds of ancient images of menorahs ever found look roughly like the menorah...

December 8, 2012: Blinded By The Lights, You Could Easily Miss The True Meaning Of Hanukkah
Comments: 49 | Categories: Hanukkah , History
"While elevating Hanukkah [to a major Jewish holiday by, in part, putting large Hanukkah menorahs on public display to compete with Christmas trees and manger scenes] does a lot of good for children’s morale, ignoring or sanitizing its historical basis...

December 5, 2012: Last Night Satmar Held Two Massive Dinners For Tens Of Thousands Of Hasidim To Thank God For Their Rebbe's Rescue From Death – But Not To Thank The Zionist Who Actually Saved Him
Comments: 37 | Categories: Haredim , History
Last night, the two competing Satmar rebbes held massive dinners, each hosting tens of thousands of hasidim, to thank God for saving Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum from the Nazis 68 years ago. But for these 68 years no Satmar hasid –...

November 27, 2012: Baruch Dayan HaEmet: Woman Who Smuggled Guns To Warsaw Ghetto Fighters Passes Away
Comments: 2 | Categories: History
Vladka Meed, who with her flawless Polish and Aryan good looks was able to smuggle pistols, gasoline for firebombs and even dynamite to the Jewish fighters inside the Warsaw Ghetto, and who after the war became an impassioned leader in...

November 15, 2012: Desecrated Ancient Temple Sheds Light On Early Power Struggles In The Land Of Israel
Comments: 2 | Categories: History , Israel
Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers have uncovered a unique 11th-century BCE sacred compound at the site of Tel Beth-Shemesh, an ancient village that resisted the aggressive expansion of neighboring Philistines. Desecrated Ancient Temple Sheds Light on Early Power Struggles at...

November 12, 2012: Has The Jewish Emphasis On Literacy Been Good For The Jews? (Hint: The Answer Is No)
Comments: 15 | Categories: History
Is the Jewish emphasis on literacy and education good for the Jews? No, it hasn't – if by "good" you mean continuity or retention. Because, despite the myth created by rabbis, requiring Jewish literacy to be a functional community member...

November 8, 2012: Rabbi Compares NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg To "Harsh Rulers" Who Made "Many False Libels" Against Metzitzah B'Peh
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , History , Med-Ethics
Over the past few months the New York City Mayor Michel Bloomberg (a Jew), has been combating Metzitzah Ba'peh - a very important procedure of the Brit Milah ritual [sic]. A tenet in the Jewish religion. Historically we have found...

November 3, 2012: Could The US Have Saved Tens Of Thousands Of Jews From The Holocaust? Maybe Not
Comments: 33 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , History
Scholars who believe that FDR and the U.S. Jewish establishment missed the chance to stop the annihilation of the Jews often express admiration for [the Irgun’s] Hillel Kook… [who] adopted the name Peter Bergson and worked in America on behalf...

October 3, 2012: A Jewish History Of Sleep
Comments: 25 | Categories: Halakha , History , Rabbis & Sex
How the way humans used to sleep impacted the history of Jewish prayer. Updated at 1:16 am CDT 10-4-2012 David K. Randall writes in the New York Times: …One of the first signs that the emphasis on a straight eight-hour...

September 19, 2012: Newly Discovered 2nd Century Gospel Says Jesus Had A Wife
Comments: 47 | Categories: History , Religion
The small papyrus fragment, which has been authenticated, shows that some early Christians rejected priestly celebecy and saw Jesus as a married man – just as his earliest Jewish followers probably did. Harvard Magazine reports: …Hollis professor of divinity Karen...

September 12, 2012: Circumcision: The History of Metzitzah BʼPeh Disease Transmission
Comments: 41 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , History , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal , Religion
More than 200 years of disease and death transmitted through metzitzah b'peh, the direct mouth-to-genital suction done by mohels to the bleeding just-circumcised-penises of baby boys. Please click to enlarge: Here's a PDF version: Download History of Metzitzah B'Peh Disease...

September 6, 2012: Is This The Root Of Chabad's Heresy?
Comments: 86 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Christianity , History , Religion
"The rabbis of the Talmud, particularly the Babylonian Talmud, were quite aware that older Jewish traditions could give rise to binitarian [one god, two aspects or personalities (or beings) of that god] notions of God and to Divine-human figures with...

August 15, 2012: Whitewashing The Satmar Rebbe On The Anniversary Of His Death
Comments: 78 | Categories: Haredim , History
It's the 33 yartzeit of the Satmar rebbe , Yoel Teitelbaum, and haredim associated with Edah Charedit figures (Rabbi Yair Hoffman, for example) and Satmar hasidim extoll the greatness of a man who was arguably one of the worst Jewish...

August 6, 2012: Report: New Genetic Study Shows That Ethiopian Jewish Community Is Ancient, Long Pre-Dating The Destruction Of The Jerusalem Temple
Comments: 35 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , History
The study reportedly shows that a few Jews started the Ethiopian community thousands of years ago, that they married local women (as was the Biblical practice), that they are a distinct population that did not have much intermarriage with non-Jews,...

July 16, 2012: Leading Zionist Orthodox Rabbis Attack State “Corrupt” Orthodox Bible Curriculum As Secular And Non-Jewish “Lies”
Comments: 20 | Categories: History , Israel , MO & Chardal
“The approach to Torah studies requires a clear awareness of the fact that you are not studying 'biblical stories' or a history book, rather these are events we are brought up on to implement in our lives on this earth....

July 4, 2012: Stealing Rav Kook
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , History , Israel , MO & Chardal , Turf Disputes
Will Palestine’s first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi be homeless? If haredim linked to former haredi leader Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv prevail, he may be. Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook in 1924 Palestine Will Haredim Steal The Home Of Pre-State Israel’s First...

May 30, 2012: Israeli Researchers Find Genetically Jewish American Indian Tribe
Comments: 43 | Categories: History , Science
Geneticists at Sheba Medical Center in Israel report they have found a unique Jewish genetic mutation in a Native American tribe living in Colorado. The "Ashkenazi mutation" on the BRCA1 gene - a marker unique to European Jews – indicates...

May 10, 2012: Did Archaeologists Find A Model Ark Of The Covenant?
Comments: 19 | Categories: History , Israel
Two small containers unearthed at Khirbet Qeiyafa are believed to be the first-ever archaeological evidence of Judean ritual dating from the time of David, about the 10th century B.C.E. Archaeological find stirs debate on David's kingdom Two small containers unearthed...

May 7, 2012: Zimbabwe's Black Jews
Comments: 16 | Categories: History , Torah & Science
DNA evidence has proven that parts of the Lemba tribe came from the Middle East to Zimbabwe thousands of years ago, where some members still observe Jewish traditions. They are Jews by genes and culture – but they are still...

April 24, 2012: Haredim Allegedly Destroy Priceless Antiquities
Comments: 48 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , History , Religion
"This is not the first time I witness the vandalism of antiquities by extremist haredi sects around this area. Six months ago I saw a similar act in Hirbat Madres. I think the two incidents may be connected.…This is shocking....

April 24, 2012: Ethiopian Jews Tried To Rescue European Jews During The Holocaust
Comments: 24 | Categories: Ethiopian Jews , History , Israel
In 1943 an Ethiopian Jewish leader appealed to Ethiopia's Emperor, Haile Selassie, to take in Jewish refugees from Europe and allow them to settle in Ethiopian Jewish towns and villages. But it was too late. Photo: Don Robinson Kasaey Damoza...

April 23, 2012: Karlin-Stolin Rebbe Pays "Historic" Visit To Israel Museum
Comments: 34 | Categories: Haredim , History , Israel
The head of the Karlin-Stolin Hasidic dynasty received a behind-closed-doors tour of the Israel Museum, the home of the Dead Sea Scrolls, last week, the first official visit there ever by a major ultra-Orthodox leader. The Karlin-Stolin Rebbe Rabbi Baruch...

April 19, 2012: Why Metzitzah B'Peh Should Be Banned, Part 3
Comments: 37 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , History , Med-Ethics
"…Even if it was explicit in the Talmud [and it is not] that the suction is meant to be oral, nevertheless since this is not an integral part of the circumcision, but only adjoined because of a health measure, so...

April 15, 2012: Updated: Haredi Rabbi Lies About The Holocaust – Again
Comments: 132 | Categories: Haredim , History
"According to some experts, between 50%-70% of those murdered by the Nazis, were "traditionally religious Jews." There is no reason to assume the percentage of survivors who were religious was any less." Rabbi Meir Wikler Yad Vashem only honors Holocaust's...

April 2, 2012: Bris Milah Can Never Change! – Except It Has, Several Times
Comments: 102 | Categories: Circumcision , Haredim , History , Med-Ethics
One of the haredi battle cries to protect their "right" to suck babies' open, bleeding circumcision wounds is that bris milah, circumcision, can never change. The "reformers" and the government are attacking haredi Judaism, and "we" must "stand firm" against...

March 28, 2012: Painting Of Old Rabbi Identified As Lost Work Of Rembrandt
Comments: 10 | Categories: Art , History
It is now believed the two paintings are a pair, linked by details of costume, pose and jewellery – particularly the rings on their beautifully contrasted hands. The young woman's smooth flesh is markedly different from the tissue-paper-like crinkles of...

March 25, 2012: Video: Passover In Kaifeng, China
Comments: 24 | Categories: History
A New York Jew spends Passover in the former Chinese Jewish 'homeland,' Kaifeng. Kaifeng Jews circa 1900 From the Yiddish Forverts: Jews of Kaifeng.

February 27, 2012: Naked Archeologist Finds Jesus Disciples' Burial Cave
Comments: 39 | Categories: History , Israel
Under an ordinary residential building in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, a robotic arm with a camera inserted into a Second Temple-era burial cave has revealed mysterious inscriptions and drawings on ossuaries. Jonah and the whale (enhanced image) from burial cave...

February 5, 2012: One Smart Bookie
Comments: 22 | Categories: History , Sports
In honor of the Super Bowl, the busiest working day of the year for American odds-makers and bookies, here's a post about my late friend Maxie Weisberg, a leading bookie whose "idiocy" helped him beat the law. Max Weisberg One...

January 30, 2012: The Satmar Rebbe And The Holocaust, Continued
Comments: 142 | Categories: Haredim , History
The Satmar Rebbe takes pre-Holocaust action against Zionism. Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum in later years I spoke with a Hungarian Holocaust survivor from the Satmar provence Saturday night. He told me about his time in various work and death camps, including...

January 26, 2012: How A Rabbinic Ban On Bugs May Have Led To The Creation Of Christianity
Comments: 67 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , History , MO & Chardal , Religion
“From a Torah perspective, eating a Big Mac or eating a salad with insects in it, the salad is worse,” Rabbi Eliezer Eidlitz, who runs the nonprofit Kosher Information Bureau said. The cost of kosher-grown lettuce is markedly higher than...

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