Newest Additions to the Library

Newest Additions to the Library

Upcoming Holidays and Commemorations | Upcoming Anniversaries
Anti-Semitism | Biography | History | Holocaust | Israel
Judaism | The Middle East | Myths & Facts | Peace Process | Public Opinion Polls
Terrorism | U.S.-Israel Relations | Virtual Jewish World

Upcoming Holidays and Commemorations

• Chanukah (December 18-26, 2022)

Upcoming Anniversaries

• U.S. Declares War On Japan (December 8, 1941)
• First Death Camp – Chelmno – Opens (December 8, 1941)
• Jewish Leaders Press FDR to Act Against Hitler (December 8, 1942)
• The Krupp War Crimes Trial (December 8, 1942)
• Golda Meir Dies (December 8, 1978)
• Turks Surrender Jerusalem to the British (December 9, 1917)
• First Zionist Congress After Holocaust (December 9-24, 1946)
• The Rogers Plan (December 9, 1969)
• Mass Rioting in Gaza Sparks First Palestinian Intifada (December 9, 1987)
• First Tower and Stockade Settlements Erected (December 10, 1936)
• Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland (December 10, 1942)
• Ralph Bunche Wins Nobel Peace Prize For His Role In Middle East Negotiations (December 10, 1950)
• Shmuel Yoseph Agnon and Nelly Sachs Win Nobel Prize For Literature (December 10, 1966)
• Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (December 10, 1978)
• Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak Tenders Resignation (December 10, 2000)
• Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat Receive the Nobel Peace Prize (December 10, 1994)
• Ivan the Terrible Captures Polotsk, Orders Jews to Be Baptized (December 11, 1563)
• Turks Surrender Jerusalem to the British (December 11, 1917)
• Hitler Declares War on the United States (December 11, 1941)
• Rosh Pina Founded (December 12, 1882)
• Histadrut Founded (December 12, 1920)
• Nazi Leader Himmler Launches “Lebensborn” Program (December 12, 1935)
• Execution of Nazi War Criminals Convicted in Bergen Belsen Trial (December 13, 1945)
• Mossad Is Established December 13, 1949
• Hausner Requests Death Penalty for Adolf Eichmann (December 13, 1961)
• Yasser Arafat Renounces Palestinian Terror at the UN (December 13, 1988)
• King Henry III confiscated the main synagogue in London (December 14, 1243)
• Board of Deputies of British Jews Founded (December 14, 1760)
• Israeli Knesset Votes to Annex Golan Heights (December 14, 1981)
• U.S. Statement Agreeing to Dialogue with the PLO (December 14, 1988)
• Saddam Hussein captured (December 14, 2003)
• Adolf Eichmann Sentenced to Death for Crimes Against Humanity (December 15, 1961)
• Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Dies (December 16, 1922)
• Spanish Government Voids 1492 Expulsion of Jews (December 16,1968)
• UN Revokes Zionism Equals Racism Resolution (December 16, 1991)
• General Grant Issues Order 11 (December 17, 1862)
• Blood Libel in Spain (December 17, 1942)
• UN Issues Only Condemnation of German Actions in Holocaust (December 17, 1942)
• Palestinian Terrorists Kill more than 30 People at Rome Airport (December 17, 1973)
• President Carter becomes the first President to light the Chanukah Menorah (December 17, 1979)
• Birthday of Steven Spielberg (December 18, 1946)
• U.S. Suspends Strategic Cooperation Over Israeli Annexation Of Golan Heights (December 18, 1981)

Anti-Semitism

• International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Definition of Anti-Semitism [Updated]
• Campus Divestment Resolutions in the USA [Updated]
• University Statements Rejecting Divestment and the Academic Boycott of Israel [Updated]
• Declaration on Relations of the Catholic Church to Non-Christian Religions (November 19, 1964)
• Stanford Report on Past Limitations on Jewish Enrollment
• States Adopt IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism [Updated]
• State Anti-BDS Legislation [Updated]
• The Great Replacement Theory
• Phony Claims of Victory by the BDS Movement [Updated]
• House Passes Res. 1125 Condemning Rising Anti-Semitism
• Professional Academic Associations and the Boycott of Israel [Updated]
• Anti-Semitic Incidents in the United States Graph [Updated]
• Anti-Semitic Incidents On U.S. Campuses Graph [Updated]
• Companies that Boycott Israel in Violation of State Laws [Updated]
• Minister Louis Farrakhan - In His Own Words [Updated]
• Critical Race Theory and the Jewish Community [Updated]
• Entertainment Industry Leaders Protest Cultural Boycott of Israel
• Companies that Boycott Israel in Violation of State Laws by State [Updated]

Biography

• Robert Clary [Updated]
• Itamar Ben-Gvir
• Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu [Updated]
• Bezalel Smotrich [Updated]
• Lilli Henoch [Updated]
• Dan Meridor [Updated]
• Herzl “Herzi” Halevi [Updated]
• Ben Bernanke [Updated]
• Lenny Bruce [Updated]
• Sacha Baron Cohen [Updated]
• Yusuf Al-Qaradawi [Updated]
• Yoram Globus [Updated]
• Gideon Sa’ar  [Updated]
• Benjamin “Benny” Gantz [Updated]
• Ayelet Shaked [Updated]
• Sue Bird [Updated]

History

• British Atrocities in Palestine During Mandate
• Arab Claims of Jewish Atrocities
• History & Overview of UNRWA [Updated]
• UN Mediator Asks US For Marines to Protect Jerusalem (July 20, 1948)
• Recommendation that US Oppose British Raising Jewish DPs and Arab Refugees in Security Council (July 28, 1948)
• State Opposes UN Mediator’s Request for Marines in Jerusalem (July 21, 1948)
• Theodore Roosevelt Expresses Support For Jewish Control of Palestine
• U.S. Congress Endorses the Balfour Declaration [Updated]
• Origins of the Name “Palestine” and Palestinian Nationalism [Updated]
• A Land without a People for a People without a Land
• FDR Asks Hull to Raise Issue of European Refugees (July 3, 1940)
• Long Expresses Concern With Undesirable Immigrants (September 18, 1940)
• Background & Overview of First Lebanon War [Updated]
• Operation Mincemeat
• History & Overview of the Palestinian Refugees [Updated]
• Alaska Jewish History [Updated]
• Quotes from Arab and Islamic Leaders Regarding Jews and Israel [Updated]
• Radical Messianic Zionism [Updated]
• Pogroms [Updated]
• Lohamei Herut Israel (Lehi or Stern Gang) [Updated]
• The Agranat Commission
• Letter to the Jewish Nation From Napoleon
• Timeline of Ethiopian Jewish History [Updated]

Holocaust

• What Effect Did Nazi Propaganda Have on the German People?
• The Holocaust as a Moral Choice
• Could The Allies Have Bombed Auschwitz-Birkenau? [Updated]
• Eugenics
• Overview of Litigation and Settlement of Case Against Swiss Banks [Updated]
• Warsaw Ghetto Doctors Research Starvation
• The Eichmann Tapes
• The “Blood for Goods” Deal [Updated]
• History & Overview of Treblinka [Updated]
• Hull Advises Roosevelt on Bermuda Refugee Conference (May 7, 1943)
• Holocaust Quiz [Updated]
• The Last Nazi Trials [Updated]
• Pope Pius XII & the Holocaust [Updated]
• Background & Overview of Kristallnacht [Updated]
• Children’s Aid Society (Oeuvre De Secours Aux Enfants - OSE)
• SS Orders Expulsion of Soviet Jews From Germany (January 5, 1938)
• Was Hitler Jewish? [Updated]
• The Bermuda Conference [Updated]
• The Bermuda Conference On Refugees: Documents And Essays
• Text of Final Communiqué of Bermuda Conference
• Bermuda Conference Summary of Recommendations
• History & Overview of Buchenwald [Updated]
• The Children of Izieu [Updated]
• U.S. States Requiring Holocaust Education in Schools [Updated]
• Dachau War Crimes Trials [Updated]

Israel

• Ukraine - Israel Relations [Updated]
• The Iron Dome Missile Defense System [Updated]
• Environmental Protection in Israel [Updated]
• Concerts in Israel by Year [Updated]
• The UN Relationship with Israel [Updated]
• Oil & Natural Gas in Israel [Updated]
• Finland - Israel Relations [Updated]
• Investigation of the Death of Shireen Abu Akleh [Updated]
• Lockheed Martin F-35 “Adir” [Updated]
• Turkey-Israel Relations [Updated]
• 2022 Israeli Election to the 25th Knesset [Updated]
• Otzma Yehudit Party [Updated]
• Voter Turnout [Updated]
• India - Israel Relations [Updated]
• Google, Meta Launch Programs at Israeli Universities
• Saudi - Israel Relations [Updated]
• Israel Defense Forces General Staff [Updated]
• Background & Overview of the Arab Boycott of Israel [Updated]
• EuroAsia Interconnector
• Greek-Israel Relations [Updated]
• Cyprus-Israel Relations [Updated]
• Australia-Israel Relations [Updated]
• Jerusalem: An Introduction [Updated]
• Maritime Border Deal Between Israel and Lebanon
• Latest Population Statistics for Israel [Updated]
• Religious Zionism Party [Updated]
• Israel-UAE Relations [Updated]
• Arab Movement for Renewal (Ta’al) Political Party [Updated]
• Balad Political Party [Updated]
• United Right Party -  Yamina [Updated]
• Hadash Political Party [Updated]
• HaMahane HaMamlachti (The National Unity Party)
• New Hope Party
• Legal Terms of Abortion in Israel [Updated]
• Israel Quiz [Updated]

Judaism

• Bene Menashe [Updated]
• Jews in Soccer [Updated]
• Jewish Members of the 118th Congress
• Jewish Representatives in the United States [Updated]
• Jewish Sportscasters [Updated]
• Total Jewish Population in the United States [Updated]
• Jewish Population in the United States by State [Updated]
• Largest Jewish Populated Metropolitan Areas in the  United States [Updated]
• Dates of Upcoming Jewish/Israeli Holidays and Festivals [Updated]
• Jewish Nobel Prize Laureates [Updated]
• Jewish Population of the World [Updated]
• Jewish Voting Record in U.S. Presidential Elections [Updated]
• Jews in the Biden Administration [Updated]
• Joseph’s Tomb [Updated]
• Jews in Major League Baseball (MLB) [Updated]
• Jews in Hockey (International) [Updated]
• Wisconsin Jewish History
• The History of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington [Updated]
• Neturei Karta [Updated]
• Belz Hasidic Dynasty [Updated]
• Jews of Yemen [Updated]
• Jewish Artists  [Updated]
• Jewish Medal of Honor Recipients
• Medicine & Law [Updated]

The Middle East

• Iran Continues to Advance Nuclear Program [Updated]
• UN General Assembly Resolutions on Israel & the Middle East 2021 [Updated]
• Biden and Iran Sanctions [Updated]
• Military Options Against Iran [Updated]
• The Egyptian Czech Arms Deal
• Biden Resumes Aid to Palestinians [Updated]
• Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership For Peace Act Of 2020 [Updated]
• Timeline of Nuclear Diplomacy With Iran [Updated]
• Report on Human Rights Practices for 2021 - Iran
• Background & Overview of the Arab Boycott of Israel [Updated]
• Biden Contemplates New Iran Deal [Updated]
• Iran’s Space Program [Updated]

Myths & Facts

• Israel is devastating Gaza’s fishing industry.
• Myths & Facts: Human Rights [Updated]
• Myths & Facts: Refugees [Updated]
• Myths & Facts: The United Nations [Updated]
• The Palestinian issue must be solved before addressing climate change.
• Myths and Facts: Terrorism [Updated]
• Myths and Facts: Israel & Lebanon [Updated]
• Myths and Facts: Borders and Boundaries [Updated]
• Myths and Facts: The War of Attrition and the 1973 War [Updated]
• Myths & Facts: The 1956 Suez War and the 1967 Six-Day War [Updated]
• Myths & Facts: Partition and the War of 1948 [Updated]
• Myths & Facts: The British Mandate Period [Updated]
• Israel’s “occupation” should be treated like Russia’s occupation of Ukraine.
• Myths & Facts: Israel’s Roots [Updated]
• Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas are freedom fighters.
• Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.
• Palestinians are never told to lie to journalists.
• Moving the UK embassy to Jerusalem would undermine peace, provoke violence, and damage relations with the Muslim world.
• Israel intentionally kills journalists. [Updated]

Peace Process

• Overview of Israel-Jordan Cooperation [Updated]
• Mahmoud Abbas and Peace [Updated]
• The Oslo Accords
• Overview of Israel-Palestinian Water Issue [Updated]
• The Allon Plan
• Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership For Peace Act Of 2020 [Updated]
• Negev Forum Steering Committee Joint Statement (June 27, 2022)
• The Negev Summit
• Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II) [Updated]
• The “Consensus” Settlements [Updated]
• Morocco Agrees To Normalize Relations With Israel
• Israel-Syria Negotiations [Updated]
• The Kerry Initiative (July 29, 2013 - April 23, 2014)
• No Peace Without Compromise [Updated]

Public Opinion Polls

• American Attitudes Toward the Middle East [Updated]
• American Public Opinion: Views Toward Foreign Aid [Updated]
• American Opinion Toward the 2015 Iran Deal and Aftermath [Updated]
• Israeli Polls Regarding Peace with the Palestinians and a Palestinian State [Updated]
• American Jewish Opinion On Religion in Public Life
• Israeli Attitudes toward Ukraine
• Israeli Opinion On Lebanon Maritime Agreement [Updated]
• Israeli Attitudes Toward Iran [Updated]
• Public Opinion in Iran [Updated]
• Palestinian Attitudes Toward Boycott of Israel [Updated]
• Arab Attitudes Toward the Abraham Accords
• Opinions of Israeli Jews and Israeli/Palestinian Arabs Toward Each Other [Updated]
• Attitudes of East Jerusalem Palestinians
• American Muslim Public Opinion [Updated]
• Palestinian Attitudes Toward Peace with Israel [Updated]
• Palestinian Attitudes about the U.S. [Updated]

Terrorism

• Casualties in Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles [Updated]
• American Victims of Terrorist Attacks [Updated]
• Background & Overview of Israel’s Security Barriers [Updated]
• Comprehensive Listing of Terrorism Victims in Israel [Updated]
• Rocket & Mortar Attacks Against Israel by Date [Updated]
• Palestine Islamic Jihad [Updated]
• Hamas Rocket Range from Gaza [Updated]
• History & Overview of Hezbollah [Updated]
• Background & Overview: Munich Olympic Massacre [Updated]
• U.S. Department of Defense on Killing Qasem Soleimani [Updated]
• Operation Breaking Dawn [Updated]
• Background & Overview of Hamas [Updated]
• Israeli Targeted Killings of Terrorists [Updated]
• Palestinian Authority Financing of Terrorism [Updated]
• Shootings Targeting American Jews [Updated]
• Number of Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel Graph [Updated]
• Number of Terrorism Fatalities in Israel [Updated]
• Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF)
• Middle East Country Reports on Terrorism [Updated]
• Reports on International Terrorism [Updated]

U.S.-Israel Relations

• Secretary of State Blinken At the J Street Conference
• Arrow Missile Program [Updated]
• The Biden Administration and Israel [Updated]
• Trump and Israel [Updated]
• Washington-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Wisconsin-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Wyoming-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• West Virginia-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Oregon-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• South Dakota-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Vermont-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Virginia-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Tennessee-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Texas - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Utah - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Pennsylvania-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Rhode Island-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• South Carolina-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• New Mexico-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• New York-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• North Carolina-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• North Dakota - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Ohio-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Nebraska-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Nevada-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• New Hampshire-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• New Jersey-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Michigan - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Minnesota- Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Mississippi - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Missouri- Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Montana-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Kansas - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Kentucky - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Louisiana- Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Maine - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Maryland - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Massachusetts - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Alabama - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Alaska - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Arizona-Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• California - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Colorado - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Connecticut - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Delaware - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Washington, DC - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Florida - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Georgia - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Hawaii - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Idaho - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Illinois - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Indiana - Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Iowa- Israel Cooperation [Updated]
• Joint Statement of the 48th U.S.-Israel Joint Political-Military Group
• U.S. Antiboycott Regulations [Updated]
• U.S.-Israel Strategic High-Level Dialogue on Technology
• The Pro-Israel & Pro-Arab Lobbies [Updated]

The Virtual Jewish World

• Germany [Updated]
• Sweden [Updated]
• South Korea [Updated]
• Spain [Updated]
• Ukraine [Updated]
• United Kingdom [Updated]
• Iran [Updated]
• Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine [Updated]