United Hebrew Congregation invites the community to its weekly, month-long series discussing why the June 1967 War was a transformative moment in Jewish, Israeli and Middle Eastern history. Some of the topics of discussion include how and why the war...
Fifty years ago, the very existence of Israel hung in the balance. Egypt’s fiery dictator, Gamal Abdel Nasser, shocked the world by ordering the immediate removal of the United Nations Emergency Force from the Sinai Peninsula. Incredibly, the anti-Western...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-In-Chief Emeritus
• Published June 8, 2017
For the psyche of American Jews — indeed Jews the world over — the lightning Israeli victory in the June 5-10, 1967, Six-Day War was a transformational event. For that brief, shining moment 50 years ago, Jews seemed to have shaken off their victimhood...
By Eric Berger, Staff writer
• Published June 8, 2017
Moshe Givon, a St. Louis resident who served as an army medic in a tank unit in the Sinai Desert during the Six-Day War, says of the tumultuous days of June 5-10, 1967, “We got lucky, and it ended fast.”After Israel defeated the much larger armies...
NEW YORK (JTA) — If you’ve been reading the opinion pages of America’s major newspapers recently, you probably know the Six-Day War broke out 50 years ago this week.The war’s broad, profound and lasting effects have been rehashed time and again: Israel...
NEW YORK — On the morning of June 5, 1967, as Arab armies and Israel clashed following weeks of tension, Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg sat anxious amid his congregants at daily prayers — fearful that the Jewish people would face extinction for...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli government minister Michael Oren, a former ambassador to the United States, rejected a report that Israel was prepared to detonate a nuclear bomb in the Sinai to turn the tide of the 1967 war with its Arab neighbors if necessary.The...
(Hadassah Magazine)(JTA) — When Israel won the Six-Day War, many people considered it a miracle. Not only did the small country beat the armies of three Arab countries — Egypt, Jordan and Syria — it also succeeded in returning Jewish control...
Five days before the Six-Day War broke out in June 1967, the American reporter Abraham Rabinovich arrived in Jerusalem. When the war ended, he decided to remain and write an account of Israel’s lightning victory. Over the next two years he interviewed...
In commemoration of 50 years since the Six-Day War, and beginning Tuesday, May, 2, Chabad of Greater St. Louis will premiere a new course by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) called “Survival of a Nation: Exploring Israel through the Lens of...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai apologized for saying that Israel fell short in the Second Lebanon War because its soldiers did not have faith. Yishai, amid calls for his removal from office, said Wednesday in a statement that his words...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 8, 2011
"The Matchmaker (Once I Was)" is a quirky, magical Israeli film about an unusual matchmaker, told through the eyes of a teenage boy. This crowd-pleaser was the audience favorite at the New York Israeli Film Festival and was selected for the upcoming prestigious...
