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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!
By David B. Green
This day in Jewish history / An artist who saw minority children is born
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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

This day in Jewish history / Creator of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps dies

Emanuel Heilbronner, a self-styled doctor, left Germany for the U.S. and created the Castile soaps that come with moral messages on the bottle.

By David B. Green | Mar 7, 2013 | 02:16 PM

This day in Jewish history / Julius and Ethel Rosenberg go on trial for espionage

The Jewish duo from New York was tried for passing military technology to the Soviets throughout the 1940s; they were put to death in 1953.

By David B. Green | Mar 6, 2013 | 09:30 AM | 4

Religious Zionist pioneers found Kibbutz Ein HaNatziv, 1946.

This day in Jewish history / Religious Zionist Mizrachi movement is founded

The movement aimed to infuse the largely secular political movement founded by Theodor Herzl with a Torah-based spirit.

By David B. Green | Mar 5, 2013 | 09:31 AM

This day in Jewish history / Murderer and racketeer Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter gets the chair

Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter was a key figure in two criminal organizations, the National Crime Syndicate and Murder Incorporated.

By David B. Green | Mar 4, 2013 | 09:28 AM

This day in Jewish history / Birth of an Orthodox rabbi who let the 20th century in

Can a man sit next to, and in direct contact with, a woman on the subway? How about drinking milk produced on a Gentile American farm? Asked, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein would answer.

By David B. Green | Mar 3, 2013 | 09:02 AM | 2

This day in Jewish history / Extra, Extra! Yiddish newspaper prints!

The first issue of Yiddishe Zeitung (Jewish Times) hit newsstands in New York City on this day in 1870.

By David B. Green | Mar 1, 2013 | 08:12 AM

This day in Jewish history / Prussian-born Texas businessman and philanthropist dies

Morris Lasker built an impressive business empire in early 20th century Texas and was generous with his wealth. His son, Albert, became a founder of modern advertising in America.

By David B. Green | Feb 28, 2013 | 07:46 AM

This Day in Jewish History / A German Jewish feminist is born

Bertha Pappenheim, who served as a psychoanalytic case study for Freud, went on to found and lead the 50,000-strong League of Jewish Women

By David B. Green | Feb 27, 2013 | 08:55 AM

This day in Jewish history / Levi Strauss, blue jeans pioneer, is born

Bavarian-born Jew Loeb Strauss moved to California in 1853 to set up a branch of his family's dry-goods business, and ended up revolutionizing fashion.

By David B. Green | Feb 26, 2013 | 08:57 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