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February 6, 2025

Gaza’s Long Jewish History

A failed expulsion, a rabbinic renaissance, and an interfaith friendship.

Most recent discussions of Gaza have assumed that the territory’s current makeup—predominately Muslim and uniformly Arab—has been a constant for centuries. But, in fact, it has a long and rich Jewish history. Jeffrey Woolf informs Itzchak Tessler about an attempt to expel the Jews from Gaza in the 6th century CE:

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February 6, 2025

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