HOLOCAUST, ALIYAH, AND THE PALESTINE REGIMENT
European Jews flee from the Third Reich towards their ancestral homeland, only to encounter the complexity of wartime politics in the Middle East. Leaders of the Yishuv propose another all-Jewish regiment in the British Army.
THE FIFTH ALIYAH AND THE ARAB REVOLT
Tensions continue to escalate in the Promised Land between the sons of Abraham while a new Beast arises on the European continent.
THE MASSACRES OF 1929
The barbarity of October 7th, 2023, was not an isolated event. Rather, it was another episode of brutality against the Jews in their homeland over the last century.
ALIYAH AND AGGRESSION IN MANDATE PALESTINE
Upheaval in the nations in the wake of World War I combined with the Balfour Declaration fuels a Third Aliyah to the Eretz Yisrael. But as Jews begin to reclaim their ancestral land and build the institutions of a modern society, an ancient antagonism begins to resurface with some of their new neighbors, leading to violent pogroms in 1920-21.
THE BALFOUR DECLARATION AND SYKES-PICOT AGREEMENT
While the British army rolled back the Ottoman Empire across the Middle East, the British Foreign Secretary was drafting a letter that held the promise of making the Zionist dream a reality.
THE JEWISH LEGION IN WWI
As the world goes to war for the first time, Zionist Jews from the Russian Empire and Ottoman Palestine see an opportunity to throw off the shackles of the last Caliphate.