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How I Snuck Onto Ferry To Interview Albert Einstein as He Arrived in America
A bit taller than average height. A thin figure. Not too skinny. Not rail thin. A gentle one. A thoughtful face wrinkled from thinking and an artistic sensibility. A pair of deep blue eyes. A silvery moustache and wavy black-and-white silk hair covering a large expansive forehead — that’s what Professor Einstein looks like. He…
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How Did this Ultra-Orthodox Man End Up in Charge of the Albert Einstein Archives?
When Albert Einstein visited British Mandate Palestine in 1921, he was impressed by Jewish enterprise in construction and agriculture. But he had harsh words for ultra-Orthodox Jews he spotted praying at the Western Wall, calling them “dull-witted clansmen of our tribe.” Sixty years after Einstein’s death, the German physicist could have never predicted that an…
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An Interview With Einstein
October 27, 1946 Princeton, New Jersey, is a town of 8,000 residents currently celebrating, along with the entire world, the 200th birthday of its famous university. Woodrow Wilson, tragic dreamer of the first League of Nations, was president of Princeton University prior to becoming president of the United States. Today another dreamer lives there. On…
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Why Is a Mainstream Jewish Charity Funding Pamela Geller?
Pamela Geller is the flamboyant and unfiltered representative for the anti-Muslim far-right on the Internet. Her organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, has mounted legal campaigns to force public buses across the country to run her advertisements, including one claiming “Islamic Jew-hatred: It’s in the Quran,” and urging an end to “all aid to Islamic…
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Poles Call for Hate Speech Crackdown After Demonstrators Burn Jew in Effigy
Poland’s B’nai Brith has denounced the burning of a Jew in effigy during an anti-refugee rally. The anti-Semitic act followed tirades against Muslim refugees at a rally in Wroclaw, a major city in southwest Poland. “Raped, beaten and murdered by the Islamic savages,” the Polish nationalists shouted in the market square this week. “Do you…
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Jonathan Pollard Drama Ends With Whimper — Will Parole Spark New Fight?
A spy drama that lasted three decades, sowed suspicion between two allies, and that sent a Jewish American behind bars for half his life, ended unceremoniously Friday with the opening of a door in the middle of a dark night in North Carolina. Jonathan Pollard, the Navy intelligence analyst who stole American defense secrets and…
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Conservative Judaism Seeks To Rebrand Itself — But as What?
(JTA) — Conservative Judaism is at a crossroads. The movement is committed to Jewish tradition, but it’s seeing a growing number of its young people walk out the door — most often to Reform Judaism. American Jews who self-identify as Conservative increasingly are leading lives at odds with the core values and rules of Conservative…
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Aly Raisman Sets Her Sights on 2016 Olympics in Rio
(JTA) — Once the music started playing — not the “Hava Nagila” tune that made her the Jewish poster child of the London Games, but something equally folksy — Aly Raisman tumbled right out of bounds. On her first bit of gymnastics at her comeback World Championships here last month, she had quickly incurred a…
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8 Heartbreaking Pictures of Slain Teen Ezra Schwartz
Ezra Schwartz was just 18 years old when he was killed this Thursday in a shooting attack in the West Bank. Originally from Sharon, Massachusetts, the teen was in Israel for a gap year. He was spending his time studying at at the “Ashreinu” Yeshiva in Beit Shemesh and volunteering. When the terror attack happened,…
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Ezra Schwartz Recalled for Big Heart and Love of Israel
At Camp Yavneh in the woods of New Hampshire they were known as the “Ezras” – Ezra Schwartz and Ezra Weener, close friends who shared the same height and name and spent summers together playing benign practical jokes and sharing a laugh. By last summer, the pair who had been bunkmates since they were nine-years-old…
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Jonathan Pollard Freed After 30 Years in Prison for Spying
Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was released on parole in the United States on Friday after 30 years in prison, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, a case that became a serious strain in relations between the close allies. “The people of Israel welcome the release of Jonathan Pollard,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “After three…
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