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Second Temple period phylacteries found near Qumran underwent a battery of scientific tests.

Saved from the Nazi gas chambers during the Holocaust, the community was reborn in the nascent state of Israel.

Rabbi Rashi Simon explained that "pogroms do not happen in a vacuum”.

In 1493, the King of Portugal had Jewish children of Spanish origin torn from the arms of their parents and sent by boat to the island of St. Thomas 7500 km away.

The film was produced in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish and Hebrew.

Panel of speakers considered the massacre was deliberately ignored.