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The United States was the first country to be created, from its inception, as a democracy. And the Bible played a major role in the process. The creation of the United States of America [...]

Where did the values and principles of the modern world come from? While developing an idea for a lecture program, I conducted a series of surveys over a period of two years, asking people to [...]

Four thousand years of Jewish history at a glance. Easy print PDF version of this timeline 12k We have now reached the conclusion of this series and before we wrap up it is fitting for us to put [...]

In the final analysis, Jewish history makes no rational sense. On January 16, 1996, then President of Israel, Ezer Weizmann, gave a speech to both Houses of Parliament of Germany. He gave this [...]

Since its founding in 1948, Israel has been in a constant state of war, and yet has achieved great economic success. “The Arab world is not in a compromising mood… Nations never [...]

After the British turned away Holocaust survivors from Israel, the UN voted to partition the land. The British broke their promise to the Jews while they created new Arab countries out of the [...]

The British promised to create a Jewish state, but served their own Arab-linked interests as millions died in the Holocaust. World War I changed the map of the world. This huge conflict waged [...]

Herzl launched the political framework for the modern State of Israel. We cannot study Zionism without studying Theodor Benyamin Ze’ev Herzl (1860-1904). We already saw in Part 59, as a [...]

The re-birth of Israel is an unprecedented phenomenon in human history. The yearning for the land of Israel never left the Jewish people. We see it in Psalms

Hitler implemented his goal to eliminate all Jews from the planet. By the beginning of 1942 the Germans had close to 9 million Jews under their control (out of a total of 11 million Jews living [...]