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VIDEO: Tour the Tomb of Machpela and Hebron’s Old City

Visit Hebron with resident and tour guide David Wilder, who answers tough questions from interviewer Mark S. Golub on the Jewish Broadcast Service Voices of Israel program.


 


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Rabbi Dvoretz and the Revival of Hebron in the 1920s

Yisrael Zissel Dvoretz was a rabbi and community leader who was instrumental in moving the Slabodka yeshiva to Hebron in…

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When the Rebbe Visited Hebron

The 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, leader of Chabad visited Hebron on August 13, 1929. He and a…

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Hebron Inspires Famous 19th Century Painter

Hebron was an inspiration for Henry Ossawa Tanner, considered to be the first African-American painter to gain international fame. His…

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