http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/zionism Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:20:51 -0400 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:20:51 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/411/transjordan-and-israel-examining-the-foundations-of-a-special-relationship By Tamim K. Kashgari - With the Great Arab Revolt in 1915, the Hashemite family was catapulted to the forefront of Middle Eastern politics and became the literal symbols of Arab unity. Even after their failure to create a single Arab state, and the defeat of Prince Faisal at the hand of the French at Damascus the Hashemites remained the most legitimate political leaders of Arabism to the Arab public. It is with this legacy that Prince Abdullah was handed the state of Transjordan by the British in 1921. How then, could Abdullah the son of Sherif Hussien, the man that began the Arab revolt, have established a cordial... Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:55 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/411/transjordan-and-israel-examining-the-foundations-of-a-special-relationship http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/221/birobidjan-the-story-of-the-first-jewish-state By Michael C. Wiseman - The world's largest menorah is not in Jerusalem, Lakewood or even in Crown Heights; it can be found in the town square of  Birobidjan, the capital city of the eponymous Jewish Autonomous Oblast of the Soviet Union. The menorah is 21 meters high, uses nine 500 W lamps and is visible from a great distance away from the town. (Chabad) The Jewish Autonomous Oblast is a far Eastern, landlocked Russian province on the border with China. It is approximately the shape and about half the size of West Virginia (Some time after 1951, Birobidjan's northern finger was ceded to other provinces so the resemblance... Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:12 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/221/birobidjan-the-story-of-the-first-jewish-state