¡Sequísimos! 🎶 Un increíble registro se viralizó en redes sociales mostrando a estudiantes de cuarto básico del Colegio Alicante del Valle, en Puente Alto, interpretando con metalófonos la canción "Enjoy the Silence", de Depeche Mode.
Since the times of our biblical forefathers, Jews have maintained a continuous presence in this land.
In the Bible.
Under the Assyrians.
Under the Babylonians.
Under the Romans.
Under the Byzantines.
Under the Arabs.
Under the Crusaders.
Under the Ottomans.
Under the British.
Always.
Yet many people still insist that Jews “came from Europe in 1948.”
That claim collapses the moment you look at the historical record. Jewish presence in this land is continuous, documented, and undeniable.
Here is a snapshot of key Jewish cities across history:
🇮🇱 Jerusalem
The spiritual and political heart of the Jewish people for over 3,000 years.
Home of the First and Second Temples, the Sanhedrin, and the kings of Judah.
Even after destruction and exile, Jews remained. By the 1800s, Jews were the largest population group in the city. Every ruling empire recorded a Jewish community there.
🇮🇱 Tiberias
One of Judaism’s four holy cities.
A major center of Torah scholarship where the Jerusalem Talmud was compiled.
Jewish life continued here through Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader, Mamluk, and Ottoman rule, with a strong revival in the 1700s under Rabbi Chaim Abulafia.
🇮🇱 Safed
The mountaintop city of Kabbalah.
In the 1500s, it became a global center of Jewish mysticism.
Home to the Ari and Rabbi Yosef Karo, whose influence still shapes Jewish life today. Jewish roots here go back to the Second Temple period and expanded under Ottoman rule.
🇮🇱 Hebron
One of the oldest cities in the world.
Home to the Cave of the Patriarchs.
A continuous Jewish presence existed for centuries until the 1929 massacre, after which the community was reestablished following 1967.
🇮🇱 Gaza
Yes, #Gaza had a Jewish community for over 2,000 years.
Mentioned in the Bible and associated with the story of Samson.
In Roman and Byzantine times, synagogues stood there, including ones with menorah mosaics. Rabbi Nathan of Gaza lived there in the 1600s. Jewish presence continued into the early 20th century.
🇮🇱 Jaffa
An ancient port city tied to Jewish history for millennia.
In the 1800s, Jews began building neighborhoods just north of Jaffa that later became Tel Aviv. A center of trade, migration, and early modern Jewish life.
🇮🇱 Haifa
A smaller but continuous Jewish presence from Talmudic times.
In the modern era, it became a hub of Zionist development, industry, and education, including the Technion.
🇮🇱 Acre
A city with a long-standing #Jewish presence through multiple empires.
A center of trade and learning, with Jewish communities recorded across centuries and early Zionist arrivals through its port.
The truth is simple:
The Jewish people are indigenous to the Land of Israel.
They lived here in every era.
They prayed toward this land from every corner of the world.
They returned whenever possible.
And in 1948, they restored sovereignty in the same land where their story began.
🇮🇱The Nation of #Israel Lives!🇮🇱
Giacomo Puccini fue uno de los más grandes compositores de ópera de todos los tiempos.
Como homenaje, les presentamos «Nessun dorma», de su última ópera, Turandot, interpretada en Trinity Leeds por el añorado tenor Rafael Rojas (1963-2022).
Joaquin Sabina: “Fui amigo de la revolución cubana y de Fidel. Pero ya no lo soy. Ahora estoy del lado de los q se manifiestan y de los q se exilian de la isla. Los q hemos sido de izquierdas tenemos la responsabilidad de decir la verdad ante los desastres de la izquierda