After the First Zionist Congress in 1897, while riding the train home, Theodor Herzl recalled a deeply emotional moment. It was a prayer he recited in Hebrew at the synagogue in Basel before the congress. In his diary, the founder of modern political Zion... See more
Mattathias or Santa, a Hanukkah menorah or a fir tree? For almost 100 years, Haaretz correspondents have been grappling with these halakhic and cultural dilemmas. The earliest report we found on Jews participating in Christmas celebrations dates back to L... See more
Nearly a year ago, an 80-year-old Israeli man, from the central Israeli city of Rehovot and the son of a Holocaust survivor, decided to search his father's name on the internet, and made a shocking discovery. Loading... The items, preserved because his fa... See more
During World War II, Alex Kleytman's mother, Eva, was imprisoned in the Pechora concentration camp, which was run by the Romanians in Transnistria, in what is now Ukraine. Loading... Five years before his murder, the retired civil engineer, who authored t... See more
Twenty-one years ago, the U.S. Marines turned to the Israeli military for help. American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq were attempting to use dogs to locate explosive devices but encountered serious operational difficulties. The dogs had been ... See more
