ToI’s weekly deep dive: The first ’Zionist’ US president * How Schindler helped launch WWII * Haredi women hit Startup Nation * ’Hebrews’ on 3,0 00-year-old altar?

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Weekend Edition Sunday, September 1, 2019 [200 years ago, John Adams promoted a Jewish state in the Holy Land]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [Second president’s support of Jewish ‘restoration’ to Land of Israel flowed from Enlightenment ideals, say historians. Trump’s ‘Christian Zionism’ speaks to his voter base]( Reporter's Notebook [At Boston’s ‘Straight Pride,’ Jews are on both sides of police barricades]( By [Matt Lebovic]( Holocaust History [80 years ago, how a very different Schindler’s ‘list’ helped ignite WWII]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [Controlling up to two dozen German spies, Oskar Schindler helped stage the false-flag ‘Gleiwitz Incident’ to justify Germany’s invasion of Poland]( [Mort Laitner]( [The Last Jew in Vinnitsa. On a T-shirt.]( [The unfortunate odyssey of ‘Lord Haw Haw,’ the Nazis’ wartime voice in Britain]( By [Robert Philpot]( [UK Labour members ‘radicalized’ on Israel since Corbyn’s election, report claims]( By [Robert Philpot]( Women and Judaism [With rabbis’ blessing, women-for-tech program creates ‘ripples’ in Haredi world]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [A pilot program backed by top tech firms and university profs is teaching ultra-Orthodox young women the skills needed to land well-paid software engineering jobs]( [Man divorces wife after 6-year refusal as Israel confiscates his passport]( By [TOI staff]( [Jennifer Lifshutz Lankin]( [We helped her get a divorce after 12 years — is that success?]( Archaeology [Newly deciphered Moabite inscription may be first use of written word ‘Hebrews’]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( Israeli elections [Vegan animal lovers uncage political aspirations ahead of Israeli elections]( By [Anabel Zamir]( [Thousands have joined political parties in time for September 17 vote, aiming to leverage the animal rights community’s growing social presence into political power that bites]( [In blow to Likud, elections czar bans parties from filming at polling stations]( By [Jacob Magid]( Environment [Israel marks start of work at thermal solar ‘sea of mirrors’ plant in Negev]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [The 121MW Negev Energy gleaming plant produces heat from the desert sun to create electricity; pity the price is as much as six times that of photovoltaic technology]( [Central Virginians put out their recycling in Israeli plastic-substitute bins]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [ToI investigates / Looking to dump poor recycling record, Israel asks public to start pitching in]( By [Melanie Lidman]( People of the Pod [LISTEN: Introducing ‘People of the Pod,’ a new podcast by ToI and AJC]( By [TOI staff]( [Episode #1: Leah and Simcha Goldin on the fight to bring their soldier son’s remains home; an in-depth look at the status of Israeli women with activist Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll]( StartUp Nation [In first, US jails Israeli binary options agent, an ex-reality TV star, for year]( By [Simona Weinglass]( [Lissa Mel pled guilty to her role in $145M fraud; must also pay $288K restitution to her victims; Yukom Comms CEO Lee Elbaz, convicted in same fraud, to be sentenced in Dec.]( [Oncologist, startup develop software that monitors cancer patients at home]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Startup says its blood test can detect early-stage lung cancer]( By [Hannah Harnest]( [Israel pushes ahead with tender for massive cloud-based data center]( By [TOI staff]( Bauhaus boom [Tel Aviv celebrates 100 years of the White City]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Holy Land [Campaigners bid to save rare 1,700-year-old Greek island synagogue mosaic]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [150,000 euros sought to preserve vivid geometric floor mosaic from what is arguably the oldest Jewish prayer house in Greece]( [Ancient Sufi dancing rituals go VR at Israel’s National Library]( By [Hannah Harnest]( [Israel travels / Remnants of an empire: Visit Ottoman-era buildings revamped for modern Jerusalem]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( From Our Blogs [Secular people need a way to become Jewish]( By [Yegór Ósipov-Gipsh]( [Non-Jews should be able to opt in to Jewishness without having to turn to a synagogue, rabbinate, or Israel]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved