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Israeli and American F-35 fighter jets during a joint training exercise. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

To prevent nuclear Iran, US should arm Israel, write 44 retired generals and admirals

JINSA head Michael Makovsky hopes the letter will “galvanize” Democrats and Republicans to give Israel the military tools it needs.

March 21, 2023

Students walk on the Quad at the University of Illinois-Urbana campus in 2016. Credit: Leigh Trail/Shutterstock.

StandWithUs kickstarts second letter campaign to fight campus anti-Semitism

It highlighted five top issues of concern for Jewish students, as well as addressed faculty members and university administrations.

August 9, 2022

Albert Einstein in 1947. Credit: Pixabay.

Up for auction: Letter by Einstein about brewing ‘anti-Semitism’ in US academia

“Mind you, it never takes the form of brutal speech or action, but rather, it brews, all the more intensely, under the surface,” wrote the physicist and mathematician in 1936.

November 22, 2021

Letters by the “Hazon Ish,” Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (1878-1953). Credit: The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.

Personal letters by rabbi known as ‘Hazon Ish’ come to National Library of Israel

A teacher and expert in Jewish law, Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz left an enduring mark on ultra-Orthodox Jewish thought and culture.

October 14, 2021

Einstein's official 1921 portrait after receiving the Nobel Prize in physics. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Einstein’s written warning to Jews, after Israel declares independence, up for sale

“It is a powerful document, written at a crucial time in Jewish history, and a reminder of the challenges the new Jewish state would have to overcome,” said Raab Collection president Nathan Raab.

Jackson Richman

August 7, 2019

Albert Einstein in 1947. Credit: Orren Jack Turner via Wikimedia Commons.

Einstein letters, including one denouncing ‘Hitler-insanity,’ up for auction

Addressed to those from his wife to his assistant, the letters reflect the physicist’s mindset before, during and after the Holocaust.

March 28, 2019

Albert Einstein and David Ben-Gurion. Credit: Israel GPO.

Albert Einstein’s brilliance, humor and literal connection to Israel

Just in time for his 140th birthday, Hebrew University reveals the content of newly acquired manuscripts.

Israel Kasnett

March 12, 2019

Albert Einstein handwritten letter auctioned in Jerusalem

A 1928 letter to a Berlin mathematician about the formalization of the “Third State of the Theory of Relativity” went for $103,700.

March 7, 2018

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