Strengthen your high schoolers' writing with a series of steps for writing successfully. With sections on organizing an essay, choosing a topic, crafting a thesis statement, and revising a draft, the instructional activity encourages...

The Jewish Virtual Library describes in great detail the location and history of the city of Beersheba.

The Jewish Virtual Library offers a detailed page explaining all aspects of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration/death camp. Contains pictures, personal accounts, and the history of what happened there.

This site is an online library of information about civil engineering.

This site from the Jewish Virtual Library describes the beliefs of the Karaites. Also compares them to the Rabbanites.

This site is provided for by the Jewish Virtual Library. Leibowitz (1905-1997 CE) was a professor at Tel Aviv University known for her love of the Bible, and her thought provoking questions when teaching her students.

This site from the Jewish Virtual Library describes the evidence of America's support of plans to partition Palestine and discusses why some Americans opposed the idea.

This Jewish Virtual Library site describes what forced labor was during the Holocaust and how the German government is making reparations to these people now.

This Jewish Virtual Library site contains information about Kristallnacht and the events that led up to it.

From the Jewish Virtual Library, historical facts about Jewish women in America starting with the pre-colonial period through the twentieth century.

The Jewish Virtual Library offers an article on Beit Govrin, an area where remains of a Roman Amphitheater were discovered in the mid-1990s.

This Jewish Virtual Library site describes the death marches that Nazi-held prisoners like the Jews, the Russians, and other minorities were forced to take from one concentration camp to another. On these marches the prisoners died...

Great site! Provides biographical information on Hirsch. Also discusses his major beliefs and teachings.

Contains a biography about the life of the late entertainer, Al Jolson (1886-1950.

The courage of an ordinary man saved thousands of lives. Here is the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish business man, who risked his life during the time of Holocaust.

A Jerusalem Post article that provides background about the Israeli kibbutz movement which is a unique rural community where its members work and live. Includes data on population, and material on organization, types of work, raising...

Table broken down by country showing estimated numbers of Jewish people killed in each area during World War II.

A detailed biography of "the Hangman" of World War II Nazi Germany.

Essay describing how many Jewish people in Germany did not initially believe reports of Jewish extermination due to Nazi control of the press.

Biographical information about the famous acting teacher Stella Adler provided by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise's Jewish Virtual Library. No additional links or pictures given.

The Jewish Virtual Library offers a brief biography on Yasser Arafat (1929-2004 CE), president of the Palestinian National Authority.

Could actions of the Allies have prevented the Holocaust or limited the destruction of six million Jews and five million other innocent civilians?

The author analyzes the treatment of Palestinians by attempting to identify and discuss democratic practice which provides equality, and would serve to make Israel unlike an apartheid state.

A history of the Einsatzgruppen, the paramilitary Nazi death squads during World War II.