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This Jewish Physicist Regretted His Work Toward the Bomb

What is it about Jews and bombs? Jewish physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer may have invented the atomic bomb, but the technology wouldn’t have existed without Leo Szilard. Leo Szilard, a Jewish physicist and inventor born in Budapest to religious Jews, had a hand in some of the 20th century’s most crucial—and deadly—inventions. After a childhood […]

The Basketball Victory That Changed Israel Forever

In 1977, Israel was trying to heal and stabilize after the tragic Olympic massacre at Munich, the Yom Kippur War, and the hostage crisis at Entebbe airport. Not to mention the heightening tensions of the Cold War. Basketball was not necessarily the nation’s most urgent concern. But that changed at Maccabi Tel Aviv’s 1977 European […]

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This Jewish Physicist Regretted His Work Toward the Bomb

The Basketball Victory That Changed Israel Forever

Ethel Rosenberg’s sons call for presidential pardon in N.Y. Times

Potentially exculpatory testimony unsealed in Rosenberg spy case

Judge orders opening of 1950 testimony that implicated Ethel Rosenberg

U.S. spy agencies hired at least 1,000 Nazis, new book alleges

From the Archive: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg — and the rabbis

Lead witness against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg dies

A Post-Soviet Jewish Coffee Chain – in Colorado

Dangerous Angels

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