By Nathan Guttman
It is a scenario no one wants to imagine, but scholars are already gaming out its implications: What will the world look like if Iran achieves nuclear capability?
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By Nathan Jeffay
Sprawling protests over skyrocketing housing costs have shaken Israel’s government. Could this be the Israeli answer to the Arab spring?
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By Donald Snyder
A trip to Auschwitz brought American cadets face to face with evil. It also forced the future military officers to wrestle with questions of ethics and responsibility.
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By Naomi Zeveloff
U.N. official Richard Falk posted a cartoon that many found anti-Semitic. He explains his fierce attacks on Israel and insists he’s no self-hating Jew.
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By Nathan Guttman
Israeli and Palestinian peace activists forged close bonds at a U.N.-sponsored seminar. Still, neither side is optimistic about the sputtering peace process.
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By Bridget Kevane
A Holocaust memorial is planned for Milan’s secret rail line to Auschwitz. Is the project being stalled by Italians’ unwillingness to face their nation’s shameful past?
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By Nathan Guttman
As the international community prepares to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Durban World Conference Against Racism, the Obama administration has decided that America will boycott the event.Read More
By Nathan Guttman
The goal the statute sought to achieve is long accomplished. In fact, the country at which it was aimed doesn’t even exist anymore. But as successor government to the Soviet Union, Russia is still being sanctioned by the Jackson-Vanik amendment, a 1974 piece of legislation imposing trade penalties against communist countries that restricted free immigration.
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By Michael Goldfarb
Michael Goldfarb profiles Robert Winston, the grandson of a rav who went onto become a pioneer in the field of in vitro fertilization — and much more.
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By Nathan Guttman
For seven years, the Rev. Patrick Debois has devoted his life to locating and marking the mass graves of Jews murdered by the Nazis. Now, the work of the Catholic priest is going online — thanks to a joint initiative between his Paris-based organization and Washington’s United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.Read More
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