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Richard Pollock

The Lubavitcher Rebbe. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Washington bipartisanship when it comes to the Rebbe

Political figures, foreign diplomats and government representatives marked the 120th anniversary of the birth of the Lubavitcher Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson—a giant in American Jewish life.

Richard Pollock

April 8, 2022

Jerusalem Mayor Mordechai Weingarten is accompanied by Arab fighters at the end of May 1948 to sign surrender documents to the city, specifically to the Jewish Quarter, where generations of Jewish families had lived and were forced to evacuate. It would remain restricted to Jews until June 1967, as a result of the Six-Day War, May 1948. Courtesy: John Phillips, “Life” magazine, as reprinted in his book, “A Will to Survive.”

‘A Will to Survive’ recalls Arab ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem’s Jews

A “Life” magazine photojournalist rekindles the 1948 Arab destruction of the city’s Jewish Quarter, along with the eviction of its residents.

Richard Pollock

August 12, 2021

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