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Israeli War of Independence

Rolf Eden at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 24, 2017 (Photo/JTA-Matthias Nareyek-Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Rolf Eden, German playboy and nightclub impresario who fought in Israel’s War of Independence, dies at 92

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 17, 2022August 17, 2022

Wars had shaped much of the early life of Rolf Eden, a German-Jewish impresario and nightclub owner who died Thursday in Berlin at the age of 92. But Eden’s adult […]

A scene from "Image of Victory."
Posted inCulture

East Bay Jewish film fest: An Egyptian journalist, a young mother and a defeat in early Israel

by Dan Pine March 9, 2022March 30, 2022
Theodore Katz in the 2022 documentary "Tantura," directed by Alon Schwarz. (Photo/JTA-Yonathan Weitzman-Reel Peak Films)
Posted inFilm

Explosive Israeli documentary ‘Tantura’ is prompting calls to excavate a possible Palestinian mass grave

by Andrew Lapin and JTA February 7, 2022July 12, 2022
a black and white stamp with a picture of the author's mother smiling
Posted inBooks

‘Born Under Fire’: Her mother’s life in pre-state Israel

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 10, 2018January 9, 2019
Mallow — or malva sylvestris — is one of several edible members of the Malvaceae family. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inJewish Life

Cooking with the common weed (no, not that kind) that sustained Israel in ’48

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer April 6, 2018April 6, 2018
An after-work Hebrew lesson for new emigres in Dimona, 1955 (Photo/Moshe Pridan-National Photo Collection)
Posted inIsrael at 70

‘Yiddish not spoken here’ — but my dad had a different idea

Vavi Toran by Vavi Toran April 5, 2018April 6, 2018
An early group of Youth Aliyah refugees arrive in Israel through the Port of Haifa. (Photo/Israel Government Press Office CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inIsrael at 70

Safe rooms and powdered eggs in the shadow of independence

Raphael Danziger by Raphael Danziger April 3, 2018April 4, 2018
Israeli historian Benny Morris speaking at the Peninsula JCC, Nov. 9, 2017 (Photo/Courtesy PJCC)
Posted inNews

‘Forget it:’ Israeli historian abandons hope for two-state solution

by Rob Gloster November 10, 2017

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