1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (175+ words) Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was an American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content. [Wikipedia] He is best known for his…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (203+ words) By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson in Mevasseret Zion, Israel It is not pleasant to wake up and learn that Britain and other European countries are imposing sanctions (as yet unspecified) on so-called ‘illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank.’ I’m no expert…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (268+ words) In 1947 and 1948, in advance of Israel declaring its independence, Israel found itself at a disadvantage militarily and demographically to its Arab neighbors. With only about 600,000 Jews residing in Mandatory Palestine, living under British rule since the early 1920s, the Jews were…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (698+ words) By Alex Gordon in Haifa, Israel After the implementation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Jewish population of the USSR increased by approximately two million people. The annexation of Western Ukraine, Western Belarus, the Baltic States, Bessarabia, and Northern Bukovina resulted…...