The prosperity of the Jewish community today belies the struggle of earlier generations who fought against anti-Semitism and openly supported civil rights
A desert capital for successive waves of rulers and armies over thousands of years, Beersheba is today the metropolitan center of the Negev, rich with commerce and high-tech.
A city rich with medical, industrial, educational and cultural achievement reached those heights thanks to the active involvement of its prominent Jews.
Better known as the alternate address for popes in the 14th century, Avignon was in fact those same Christian religious leaders who offered refuge to exiled French Jews.