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Significant past events, influential figures, and cultural moments that shaped society. Ancient civilizations, wars, social revolutions, historical landmarks, and biographies.

 Pro-Palestinian protests in Berlin.

Pro-Palestinian protesters clash with Berlin police in Rosa Luxemburg memorial rally

 Babylonian forces destroy Jerusalem in this 19th-century painting by James Tissot.

This week in Jewish history: Babylonians besiege Jerusalem, Zola publishes 'J’accuse'

By Steven Drucker
 'The number 5 remains reserved': The legacy of Franz Beckenbauer.

'The number 5 remains reserved': The legacy of Franz Beckenbauer

 Palermo, Italy. New evidence surfaces in high-profile Mafia hit case.

45 years after the assassination: New evidence surfaces in Palermo Mafia hit case

Flamenco. Illustration.

Flamenco legend La Chunga dies at 87 after battle with lung cancer

 Costas Simitis during a political event in Thessaloniki, 2019.

Former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis dies at 88

 Virupaksha temple with scenic Hampi landscape and cityscape at sunset at Karnataka India.

A Guide to UNESCO World Heritage sites in India

 Schadida Calli, copperplate engraving by Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Draakenstein, from the botanical work Hortus Malabaricus, 1678.

Renowned Indian botanist dies, famed for translating a 12-volume Latin work

 JOSIP BROZ TITO (L) – the communist revolutionary and Yugoslav politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980 – and Mosa Pijade in Foca, 1942.

From paintbrush to politics: The life of Yugoslavian communist revolutionary Mosa Pijade

Alfred Dreyfus

This week in Jewish history: The Dreyfus Affair and birth of Zionism

By Steven Drucker
 Exhumed clothing of victims of Anfal genocide, 3rd International Conference on Mass Graves in Iraq, Erbil, Iraq.

Iraqi authorities exhume remains of over 100 Kurdish women and children from mass grave

'Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther' by Rembrandt, 1660, at Moscow's Pushkin Museum

This week in Jewish history: IDF attacks Gaza, rise of Queen Esther

By Steven Drucker
Jesus Christ

This week in Jewish history: The miracle of Hanukkah and the birth of Jesus

By Steven Drucker
 David Ben-Gurion, his wife, Paula, and Golda Meir welcome future US president John F. Kennedy and his delegation to the Prime Minister’s Office in 1951.

How a group of seventh grade pupils documented history at Kibbutz Sde Boker

By ANAV SILVERMAN PERETZ
 Eli Cohen.

Eli Cohen: Who was the Israeli spy who infiltrated Syria in the 1960s?

 DURAK CARD game with four players, 1974 traditional Atlasnye deck.

Analyzing the terms and expressions associated with our most popular card games

By RUTH BELOFF
 NAZI TROOPS and students gather seized papers and books to burn, in the Opernplatz, Berlin, 1933.

This week in Jewish history: Jordan & Jerusalem, Tel Aviv & Egypt

By Steven Drucker
 A glass of Jerusalem wine with the Montefiore Windmill logo.

The Jerusalem wine story: An in-depth look at the Holy City's history with the grape

Albert Einstein

What did Einstein think of Zionism, Jewish nationalism?

 The surrender of Jerusalem, December 9, 1917.

This week in Jewish history: Jerusalem seized, Nazi death camps begin

By Steven Drucker
 Tower Bridge from the Tower of London.

Greatest murder mystery in English royal history closer to be solved?

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