The HarperCollins publishing house has omitted Israel from maps in atlases that it sells to English-speaking schools in the Middle East. Collins Bartholomew, a map-publishing company that is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, told The Tablet, an international Catholic news weekly based in London, that including Israel in its the “Collins Primary Geography Atlas For The…
The new interactive city map issued by the Buenos Aires state government includes an icon to memorialize the bomb that destroyed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29. “Here there was life,” or “Aca habia vida” in Spanish, is the name of the commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the attack on March 17,…
Young British Jews who support the Sign on the Green Line Campaign. / YouTube Throughout our history, young Jewish voices have played a vital role in shaping the Jewish story. Young people lead and teach other young people and take on significant leadership roles. Youth empowerment is highly valued, and it was with this feeling…
Chile’s Palestine Football Club unveiled its new uniforms, which show the entire map of Israel as Palestine on the front of the shirt. Inset into the players’ numbers on the backs of their uniform shirts also are small maps of Israel. The uniforms, worn Sunday in a match against Universidad de Concepcion, replace the old…
For over 100 years, the Jewish National Fund’s iconic little blue donation boxes presented on their tin sides a dream of a Jewish state that spanned, uninterrupted, from the Jordan Valley to the Mediterranean Sea. The Israeli government officially dropped that dream in 2009, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his support for a two-state…
In the story of Cain and Abel, it says: “And Cain said to Abel his brother…” (Genesis 4:8) But what did Cain say? There is nothing in the text about what he said to his brother. The ancient rabbis imagined an entire conversation between the brothers. And what was the conversation about? One ancient sage…
An Arabic-language professor at San Diego State University handed out a map of the Middle East which identified Israel as “Palestine.” The map handed out by lecturer Ghassan Zakaria on the second day of classes earlier this month was meant to highlight Arabic-speaking countries, according to the student newspaper The Daily Aztec. Following complaints from…
As online titans compete to deliver instant maps to smartphones, the Library of Congress in Washington is focusing attention on an antique “cosmology” printed in 1507 that serves as America’s birth certificate. The black-and-white map created by Martin Waldseemuller, a French cleric, was the first time the name America had appeared on any map. Waldseemuller…
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