This week marks the Sheloshim commemorative of the passing of one of my heroes and a hero of our people, Moshe Arens.
Seven years ago I had the honor to have interviewed him in …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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2/5/19
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This past Sunday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Set on the anniversary of the Russian Army’s liberation of Auschwitz, the day was created by the United Nations to remember and …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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2/1/19
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A comprehensive survey of European attitudes to anti-Semitism released last week by the European Union displays what its authors call a “perception gap.”
The term means that …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/1/19
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The video, with suspenseful music playing in the background, opens with footage of a crowd of Orthodox Jews. Then it paraphrases a classic poem about the Holocaust. “First they came …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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2/1/19
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Lily Widner has cheated death too many times to remember each close call.
The 97-year-old Jewish Floridian survived starvation in the ghetto of her native Polish city of Lodz, two Nazi death camps …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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2/1/19
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Mandy Silverman remembers being scared of the kitchen as a child.
“There was a constant joke in my house growing up that I would mess up instant iced tea,” she recalled in a …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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2/1/19
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In the despair of the Soviet Union’s fierce World War II battles against the Nazis, a 42-year-old Jewish man from Odessa wrote a song in Yiddish poking fun at …
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By Penny Schwartz, JTA
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2/1/19
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision not to extend the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) observers is likely to be denounced as yet another …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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2/1/19
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The decision by the Boston Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) that any member organization supporting the BDS movement could be expelled from the council has generated a wider discussion among …
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By Sean Savage, JNS
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2/1/19
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In the 1990s show “Beverly Hills 90210,” student body president Brandon Walsh is torn between placating his university’s Black Student Union after they invite a Louis Farrakhan-type …
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By Noa Amouyal, JNS
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2/1/19
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