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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 / New England Patriots get a new owner

Robert Kraft - Jewish-American businessman, sports executive and philanthropist - bought the team and ended its losing streak.

By David B. Green | Jan 21, 2013 | 07:30 AM

This day in Jewish history / A Nazi parley

It was at the Wannsee Conference, named for the Berlin villa where it was held, that Nazi bureaucrats received their marching orders for the Final Solution.

By David B. Green | Jan 20, 2013 | 06:54 AM | 4

This day in Jewish history / A kabbalah legend dies

The grave of Rabbi Shalom Sharabi, known by the Hebrew acronym formed by his name, 'Rashash,' is still a site of pilgrimage.

By David B. Green | Jan 18, 2013 | 08:58 AM

This day in Jewish history / Yehudi Menuhin, 9, solos at Metropolitan

The great violinist and conductor was just as known for his defense of human and animal rights, and criticism of Israeli policies.

By David B. Green | Jan 17, 2013 | 08:48 AM

This day in Jewish history / House of Converts opens in London

In an attempt to deal with the problem of Jews in England, in 1232 King Henry III offered all those who converted to Catholicism a communal home and a tiny wage.

By David B. Green | Jan 16, 2013 | 09:10 AM | 2

This day in Jewish history / A crime boss cashes in his chips

Russian-born Meyer Lansky was a gambling and crime kingpin across the country during the heyday of American gangsters.

By David B. Green | Jan 15, 2013 | 08:15 AM

This day in Jewish history / The Warsaw Ghetto uprising begins, in the mind

We are facing an arch-foe with ruthlessness that knows no bounds, explained Rabbi Menachem Ziemba: 'We must resist.'

By David B. Green | Jan 14, 2013 | 09:43 AM

This day in Jewish history / A Stalin-sanctioned murder staged to look like an accident

In the early years of Soviet Communism, Yiddish actor and community leader Solomon Mikhoels proved threatening enough for Stalin to get rid of him.

By David B. Green | Jan 13, 2013 | 09:22 AM | 6

This day in Jewish history / A future French premier is born

Pierre Mendes France, the prime minister who withdrew France from Vietnam, served for less than a year. He also, at one point, broke out of jail with a saw.

By David B. Green | Jan 11, 2013 | 09:48 AM

This day in Jewish history / TV premiere for the 'most Jewish show ever'

Making the successful leap from radio to TV, Gertrude Berg's sitcom, 'The Goldbergs' earned her the first primetime Emmy for best comedy actress.

By David B. Green | Jan 10, 2013 | 09:48 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