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Freedom seeking by sea topic of Tuesday program
6+ hour, 39+ min ago (106+ words) BARRY, Ill. " Freedom seeking by sea will be the topic of Tuesday night's Freedom Conversations. The free online program begins at 7 p. m. Featured speaker Marcus Rediker will highlight the social history he uncovered for his book, "Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of…...
April 13, 1948: When 78 Jews died in the Hadassah Convoy Massacre
12+ hour, 18+ min ago (1392+ words) Robert Besser is a news editor who has worked in television and newspapers in the United States, Asia and the Middle East. Seventy-eight years ago this week the 1948 Hadassah Convoy Massacre occurred in Jerusalem, killing 78 Jews. On April 13, 1948 a convoy…...
A journey to the biblical Red Sea crossing
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (1204+ words) This Wednesday, we mark the Seventh Day of Passover, commemorating one of the most dramatic moments in the biblical story of our people " the crossing of the Red Sea. In synagogues around the world, congregations rise to recite Shirat Ha'yam,…...
Iran's Underground Air Force Base Was Hit Earlier in the War
19+ hour, 25+ min ago (280+ words) Satellite images show that airstrikes hit Iran's remote "Eagle 44" underground air force base, located in a mountainous area in the country's south. The strikes happened at the end of March, but the attack has not previously been reported. The imagery,…...
Hezbollah rocket hits remains of 1, 500-year-old Byzantine church in Nahariya
20+ hour, 35+ min ago (322+ words) The remains of a Byzantine Church dating back some 1, 500 years in the northern city of Nahariya were hit by a Hezbollah rocket on Friday night, the Israel Antiquities Authority confirmed to The Times of Israel on Sunday, after the news…...
Hezbollah rocket hits site of Byzantine-era church in Nahariya
20+ hour, 42+ min ago (335+ words) A rocket fired by Hezbollah toward northern Israel on Friday struck the remains of a Byzantine-era church in Nahariya, damaging its modern, protective structure, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) told The Jerusalem Post." The church, rediscovered by the Nehariya municipality…...
Schindler in Persian: Iranian heroes who painted the Holocaust with light
19+ hour, 50+ min ago (797+ words) On Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026, under the quiet skies of a ceasefire and while the State of Israel and Iran remain signatories to a historic agreement, the Israeli heart seeks anchors of humanity within the most harrowing pages of history." Precisely…...
The Sobibor Uprising | Aish
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (1701+ words) A quarter million Jews were murdered at Sobibor. But on one October afternoon in 1943, nearly 300 prisoners fought back and ran for their lives. On Yom Ha Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), as we remember the six million, Sobibor demands we remember…...
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Archaeologists unearthed in Iraq the largest winged bull statue in history, a lamassu 6 meters tall with the body of a bull, eagle wings, and a human head that guarded the throne room of one of the most powerful kings of the ancient world, and the piece was only found because the Islamic State destroyed the mosque that had hidden the palace for over a thousand years.
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (871+ words) In Mosul, in northern Iraq, beneath what had been the Mosque of the Prophet Jonah for centuries, there existed a palace that no one could excavate. The site was sacred. Untouchable. No archaeologist had permission to dig there for over…...