the maine colony in jaffa.; one of the few survivors gives its brief history--marriage rites among the arabs. share full article. dec. 2, 1883.

By the mid-1940s, the situation in Jaffa and across Palestine was getting worse. As the British were preparing to end the occupation and leave the country, Zionist militias intensified their ...

Like the Gaza Strip today, Jaffa was once among the most densely populated places in Palestine. In 1945, British Mandate records documented around 94,000 residents in the city itself, and another ...

Though it failed to recapture Jerusalem, the Third Crusade is considered a major success by historians. Richard the Lionheart reversed many of Saladin’s territorial gains, reclaiming key coastal ...

For 65 years, a wax-sealed package sat on a glass display shelf in my parents basement in Littleton. Next to it were some other tchotchkes (Yiddish for trinkets or knickknacks).

The Jewish people will assist one thousand Jewish immigrants to settle in Palestine for every Jew killed in Jaffa during the past few days, it was declared tonight by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, ...

Hours before a scheduled screening of a documentary about the 1948 depopulation of the Palestinian city of Lyd, Israeli police blocked a Jaffa theater from showing the film last week. The ...

Jaffa Mediterranean Grill is named after the old, historically cosmopolitan port city Jaffa, famous for its oranges, which sits on the Mediterranean Sea and is adjacent to Tel Aviv.

The ballistic missile, named “Palestine 2,” landed in Tel Aviv’s Jaffa district, according to the Israeli military. Houthi rebels said the attack was in response to “the massacres against ...