Larry Domnitch
ARTICLES BY: Larry Domnitch
UNRWA Leads to a Path of Violence for Israel, Not Peace
When UNWRA (the United Nations Relief and Work Agency) was formed In December 1949, it was supposed to temporarily tend to the needs of the...
Remembering the Anschluss
Eighty-four years ago -- on March 12, 1938 -- Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. In 1933, Germany’s Jews were under the grip of Nazism;...
Remembering Hanukkah 1917 and the Liberation of Jerusalem
On December 9, 1917, British forces accepted the Turkish surrender of Jerusalem. Two days later, British forces officially entered the walls of the city. As the...
Independence Day Parades in Jerusalem — 1967 and 1968
On May 15, 1967, Israel's Independence Day parade was held in Jerusalem. It was a parade with historical significance. But the parade also faced opposition...
Yom Kippur 1967: The Return to the Western Wall
On Yom Kippur in 1967, thousands arrived at the Western Wall for the concluding prayers and to hear the long awaited sound of the shofar. Prior...
The White Paper: 80 Years Later
Eighty years ago, an ominous and devastating policy was enacted by the British government that would wreak severe destruction upon the Jewish people. The MacDonald White...
World War I, Yom Kippur and a Tale of Jewish Unity
During the First World War, Jewish soldiers from Germany and Eastern Europe found themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. But on Yom Kippur in 1917 -- in a German...
Shabbat Nachamu in Jerusalem, 1920
The Haftorah read on Shabbat Nachamu, which follows Tisha B’Av, expresses the message of comfort conveyed by the prophet Isaiah to a bereaved nation soon...
Tisha B’Av in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942
Before the Germans captured the city of Warsaw in the 1939 Blitzkrieg, there were 360,000 Jews in the Polish capital. Its Jews were forced into...
Remembering the Heroic Entebbe Raid Forty Years Later
It took Israeli commandos minutes to conduct one of the greatest and most daring rescue missions in modern history in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4,...
The Expulsion of Jews from Lithuania and Courland on Shavuot 1915
Shavuot 1915 was one of the largest single expulsions of Jews since Roman times.During this bleak period, more than 200,000 Jews in Lithuania and Courland...
The Unity of Jerusalem
There is a recurring theme associated with Jerusalem: that of Jewish unity. Jerusalem is the city of Peace, although it has been conquered 36 times in its long history....
Remembering the 1920 Passover Pogrom in Israel
On November 2, 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration, which supported the idea of Jewish statehood in "Palestine." Just two years later, local British administrators challenged that...
Reading the Megillah — and Supporting Israel — at the United Nations
The United Nations is the ultimate arena for Israel bashers and anti-Zionists. But on Purim 2016, the UN was the scene of prayers for world...
