History
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On the eve of World War II, Poland was home to about 3.3 million Jews, the largest Jewish community in Europe. We usually picture its final years as a story of religious decline. Young Jews, the story goes, were leaving the synagogue in droves, trading prayer books for socialist pamphlets and Zionist dreams. By the […]
Human Interest
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My first marriage ended 20 years ago and I felt like my life shattered. We had attended university together, earned our PhDs together, had two beautiful children together, and then moved to London together for his career. I fought the split with everything I had. I was terrified. And still, it was for the absolute […]
The first trapdoor was hidden in the floor. In 2012, Dutch corporate attorney Roxane van Iperen bought a secluded nine-room house on a quiet forest path and began to renovate it. The house started giving up its secrets almost at once. There were more trapdoors, secret rooms, and double walls. Then came stranger finds: old […]
Last week, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) acknowledged that the organization should have done more, earlier, to help secure the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. On October 10, 2026, the New York Times reported that Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, President of the ICRC, recently acknowledged in an interview […]
Video
Critics said “Ur of the Chaldeans” proved the Torah was written a thousand years late. Then a 3,000-year-old tablet turned up in the wrong place.
