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This Day in Jewish History

This day in Jewish history / The rebbe who met with Freud

Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, the fifth Lubavitcher rebbe who is credited with initiating Chabad's focus on outreach, traveled to Vienna to consult with Sigmund Freud. On this day in 1920, Schneersohn died.

By David B. Green | Mar 21, 2013 | 09:35 AM

This day in Jewish history / The premiere of 'Rhapsody in Blue'
By David B. Green
This day in Jewish history / Extra, Extra! Yiddish newspaper prints!
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This day in Jewish history / An artist who saw minority children is born
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This day in Jewish history / A blood libel trial that captures the world's attention

The age-old blood libel accusation was thrown against Menachem Mendel Beilis in Kiev in 1911, despite clear evidence that he committed no crime.

By David B. Green | Mar 20, 2013 | 09:39 AM

This day in Jewish history / Persian Jews given choice: Convert or die

Thousands of Mashhad Jews did convert to Islam, in appearance at least, after nearly 40 were murdered by their neighbors; most simply took their Judaism underground.

By David B. Green | Mar 19, 2013 | 06:59 AM | 8

This day in Jewish history / Jews struggle to settle in the New World

In 1655, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in New Amsterdam tried and failed to keep Jews out of the "the colony that would later become New York.

By David B. Green | Mar 18, 2013 | 08:19 AM

This day in Jewish history / A visionary architect dies

Louis Kahn, whose buildings were known for their intellectual rigor and spirituality, was one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

By David B. Green | Mar 17, 2013 | 09:44 AM

Rabbis participate in the Second World Congress of Rabbis and Imams for Peace in Seville

This day in Jewish history / Anti-Jewish rioting begins in Seville

The seeds of the Inquisition are sown on this day in 1391 when a fiery preacher in Seville, Spain incited months of violence against the city's Jews.

By David B. Green | Mar 15, 2013 | 09:06 AM

Women of the Wall solidarity in New York, photo by Joan Roth, March 13, 2013

This day in Jewish history / American Jewish feminists call for change

On this day in 1972, a group of women demanded equality from the American Conservative movement. Just a decade later, many of their goals were achieved.

By David B. Green | Mar 14, 2013 | 10:04 AM

This day in Jewish history / Birth of a media tycoon and 17 Magazine's founder

Walter Annenberg built an empire of newspapers, magazines and TV stations, amassed an impressive art collection and befriended Ronald Reagan.

By David B. Green | Mar 13, 2013 | 09:07 AM

This Day in Jewish History / Nazi Germany annexes Austria

A significant majority of Austrians enthusiastically welcomed the Anschluss, which spelled the doom of the country's Jewish population.

By David B. Green | Mar 12, 2013 | 09:05 AM

This day in Jewish history / An artist who saw minority children is born

Ezra Jack Keats' landmark book 'The Snowy Day,' the first to feature a black child, changed the field of children's literature forever.

By David B. Green | Mar 11, 2013 | 07:16 AM

This day in Jewish history / A self-taught nuclear physicist is born

Though he'd never been to university, Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich was a natural to be tapped to build the Russian bomb.

By David B. Green | Mar 8, 2013 | 10:05 AM

Double Take

African migrants looking through the fence at the Egyptian-Israeli border on August 4, 2012.

Double Take / African asylum seekers out of the spolight but not in the clear

By Joel Greenberg | 08:39 AM

Double Take / A month after Gaza war, Hamas still rides a wave of popularity

By Joel Greenberg | 07:22 AM | 4

Double Take / The politics of potholes in East Jerusalem

By Joel Greenberg | 09:41 AM

Someone Else's Simcha

Someone Else's Simcha / Amit and Nili's wedding - Don't stop believing

By Ron Ben-Tovim | 06:29 PM

Someone Else's Simcha / Sharon Shaya's bat mitzvah – Logging off long enough to grow up

By Ron Ben-Tovim | 06:33 PM

Someone Else's Simcha / Pnina and Yitzhak's 50th anniversary – Indian love, set in gold

By Ron Ben-Tovim | 01:56 PM

On Root

Keep the pita, lose the hummus and pickles for Passover.

On Root / In search of breadcrumbs, oxygen and pickles

By Jeremy Benstein | 07:41 PM

On Root / How 'Europe' and 'Maghreb' both come from Hebrew

By Jeremy Benstein | 12:08 PM | 4

On Root / Cowboys home on the Israeli range at dawn

By Jeremy Benstein | 12:27 PM