Happy Tu B’Shevat!
It is the 15th of Shevat, the “New Year for Trees”—a holiday during which Jews reflect on the importance of respecting and preserving the environment.
Pictured above: Tree Planting circa 1934
Subjects: Israel; agriculture; children
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by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History
The pamphlet “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” an anti-Semitic forgery that outlined alleged plans for Jewish world domination, appeared with disturbing regularity throughout the 20th century, and unfortunately is sometimes cited even today as an authentic document.
The work has been thoroughly debunked many times, perhaps most famously…
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Leonore Lanfer. Black and white photograph circa 1900. Yeshiva University Museum Collections.
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