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Data-driven article series of Jewish history, culture, and identity

In 2026, Gesher will publish a three-part article series on Jewish history, identity, and continuity--using data to tell the story like never before.

1. After Auschwitz, What if the Jews Had No State?
After the Holocaust, the world faced a massive Jewish refugee crisis it didn't want to solve. Then 850,000 more were expelled from the broader Middle East. Critics today contend that the State of Israel should have never been founded. In a world without Israel, what happens to these refugees — and the global Jewish population? We modeled it. The answer changes everything you know about Jewish survival in the modern era.

2. What Are the Odds You Exist? For Jews, Almost Zero.
No Jewish person alive today should exist. Roman exile. Crusades. Inquisition. Pogroms. Holocaust. Trace any Jewish family back 500 years and the sheer number of times they should have been erased is staggering. We calculated the odds of your existence today based on your own unique Jewish story. The number might make you see your existence in a completely different light.

3. The Inquisition Didn't End Jewish Lineage. It Spread It.
The Spanish Inquisition tried to erase Judaism from Iberia. Instead, it scattered Jewish traditions across two global empires and buried them so deep that millions of people today carry customs they no longer recognize as Jewish. Why do families across Latin America light candles on Friday nights without knowing why? Why do so many people instinctively believe forgiveness must be earned? The Inquisition didn't end the Jewish story. It wrote one of its most remarkable chapters.

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