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Thirty-five hundred Northern soldiers are buried in the Gettysburg cemetery – out of 23,000 Northern troops who perished in this costliest battle in the American Civil War.

If you visit Philadelphia, where many important events during America’s War of Independence (1775-1781) took place, you will see many of that conflict’s historical sites.

The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 30

Jewish Ledger Myanmar’s tiny Jewish community is rattled after military coup By Ben Frank (JTA) – A leader of Myanmar’s tiny Jewish community, reacting to the military coup that has rocked the nation, recalled witnessing “the brutality of the Military” in his Southeast Asian country in 1988.  “But since 2015, I never thought I or my children’s generation” would ever “witness this again,” Sammy Samuels wrote on Facebook. “But I was wrong.”  He cal...

February 5, 2021 11:53 am A group of Myanmar activists residing in Israel wave the historical flag of Burma (until 1974), the flag of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyis National League for Democracy party, and the flag of Israel during a protest outside the countrys embassy in Tel Aviv against the countrys military coup, Feb. 3, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images) Advertisement (JTA) — A leader of Myanmar’s tiny Jewish community, reacting to the military coup that...