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February 18th, 2019 - 9:56 am § in America, Jews

WW2 “Kissing Sailor” Dies

This photo taken in Times Square on V-J Day is one of the most iconic photos of World War 2. The Life magazine photographer, Alfred Eisenstadt, died in 1995. For many years, the kissing strangers were anonymous, but eventually were identified as Greta Zimmer Friedman, who died in 2016 at age 92, an[...]

February 18th, 2019 - 1:56 am § in Israel/Palestine, Religion

Jews helped helped build the al Aqsa mosque on the Temple site and prayed there together with Muslims

Ziad Lalmi FACEBOOK In 610, the Sassanid Empire drove the Byzantine Empire out of the Middle East, giving the Jews control of Jerusalem for the first time in centuries. The Jews in Palestine were allowed to set up a vassal state under the Sassanid Empire called the Sassanid Jewish Commonwealth whic[...]

February 18th, 2019 - 1:24 am § in Misc.

THE_Ave Challenge: Who painted this?

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