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| Moabite Stone: New Evidence About King David and the Kingdom of Israel

HISTORYBy Lenny GiteckJanuary 16, 2023

The Mesha Stele, also called the Moabite Stone, is a basalt stone slab that has provided historians and linguists with the largest source of the Moabite language to date.

Israel Antiquities Authority: U.S. Returns Stolen Ancient Jewish Coin to Israel

HISTORYBy Lenny GiteckSeptember 19, 2022

American authorities have returned a rare, 2,000-year-old Jewish coin to Israel nearly two decades after it was looted, smuggled, and put up for auction in the United States…

The Ancient City of David: Jerusalem’s Underground Archeological Treasure

HISTORYBy Lenny GiteckMay 17, 2022

Deep underground, the City of David is revealing some of the most exciting archeological finds of the ancient world…

Is the Vatican Hiding Treasures From the Second Jewish Temple in Jerusalem?

HISTORYBy Lenny GiteckFebruary 25, 2022

The first Jewish Temple on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount was built by King Solomon and was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. The Second Temple…

Israeli Archeologists Unearth Ancient Private Toilet in Jerusalem

HISTORYBy Lenny GiteckOctober 13, 2021

Israeli archeologists have discovered a rudimentary private toilet in Jerusalem believed to come from…

Tisha B’Av: Mourning the Destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem

HISTORYBy Lenny GiteckJuly 24, 2021

The holy day of Tisha B’Av is without a doubt the most sorrowful, most somber day in the Jewish religious calendar…

The Maccabean Revolt: Seven-Year Rebellion Against the Mighty Seleucid Empire and Hellenization of the Jews

HISTORYBy Lenny GiteckMay 17, 2021

The recapture of Jerusalem in 164 BCE from the armies of Antiochus IV was a significant early victory for Judah Maccabee’s fighters…

First Discovery in 60 Years: Israeli Experts Find More Dead Sea Scroll Fragments in the Judean Desert

HISTORYBy Lenny GiteckMarch 31, 2021

For the first time in six decades, Israeli researchers have uncovered additional fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls that date back nearly two millennia.

Operation Opera: Israel’s Daring 1981 Raid on Saddam Hussein’s Osirak Nuclear Reactor

HISTORYBy Lenny GiteckFebruary 16, 2021

Operation Opera was an Israeli surprise air attack on June 7, 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor…

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Find out more about Max Nordau from My Jewish Learning by clicking here.

FUN QUIZ ANSWERS

 

  1. 1. Jerusalem’s emblem has a lion, a wall (like the city walls and the Western Wall), and an olive branch. What does the lion represent?
    a. Lion of Judah
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  3. 2. How many active archeological sites are Jerusalem? More than…
    d. 2,000
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  5. 3. Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives is the oldest active burial site in the world and is home to more than _____ Jewish graves.
    b. 150,000
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  7. 4. How many Christian churches are there in Jerusalem?
    b. 50
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  9. 5. Guests at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel have included Elizabeth Taylor, Winston Churchill, Prince Charles (now King Charles), Hillary Clinton, and Madonna.
    a. True
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  11. 6. Jerusalem’s fabulous (and frenetic!), enormous, partially covered market packs in locals and tourists with its array of food, color, and noise. What is the market called?
    a. Mahaneh Yehuda

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WOW! FACTS

Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?

We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!

To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
 

Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google

Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia

Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed

Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed

Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed

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