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  Elon Musk’s vision for Twitter endangers Jews and other minorities

  Social media sites with no limits on free expression have emboldened mass shooters and those who exploit minors to take their hate offline

  By Elad Nehorai

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  30 years after L.A. burned, two Latino Jewish immigrants bring hope to ground zero

  Near the corner of Vermont and Manchester avenues, someone created a huge mural consisting of a single word: “HOPES.” It’s been there for a while, and Michelle Clark, who lives nearby, sees it as a cruel joke. “Look around,” said Clark, 59, who was pushing a shopping cart full of recyclables. “It’s more like ‘The…

  By Rob Eshman Apr 28, 2022 | 3 min read
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  To memorialize their salvation, survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto built a sewer

  The Warsaw Ghetto Survivor’s Memorial is designed to look like a sewer — once the source of weapons, of food, of information for Jews stuck in the ghetto.

  By Nora Berman Apr 27, 2022 | 3 min read

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  Odessa, Ukraine has a rich Jewish baseball history

  Fewer than 200 Jews have played in the majors. But three Jewish players born in Odessa, the Ukrainian city now under heavy Russian siege, excelled in their adopted sport.

  By Peter Dreier Apr 27, 2022 | 5 min read
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  Remember the six million without making false comparisons to the Holocaust

  Learning from the Holocaust without making false comparisons for political gain requires sensitivity and perspective.

  By Ken Jacobson Apr 27, 2022 | 3 min read
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  ‘Never forgive and never forget’: Why would a Jew live in Poland post-Holocaust?

  On a recent trip to Nozyk Synagogue and the Jewish Cemetery of Warsaw, our deputy opinion editor describes how the of the weight of past atrocities affect Jewish perceptions of reality today.

  By Nora Berman Apr 26, 2022 | 3 min read
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  This time, can we skip the debates and just sign the Iran Deal?

  The best way to prevent Iran from getting nukes is to revive the deal Trump scuttled

  By Rob Eshman Apr 22, 2022 | 4 min read
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  I’m joining this year’s March of the Living. It may be the last to include survivors

  In 2019, 70 Holocaust survivors walked the historic route from Auschwitz to Birkenau. This year, there will only be eight.

  By Nora Berman Apr 20, 2022 | 5 min read
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  Shocked by Russian war crimes? My father never forgot them

  What Russians are doing to Ukrainians echoes what Soviet soldiers did to concentration camp survivors

  By Janine Winkler Apr 19, 2022 | 4 min read
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  Miriam Isserow selflessly fought for survivors

  Her tireless support for victims made us feel that sharing could be a positive thing.

  By Elana Maryles Sztokman Apr 19, 2022 | 3 min read
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  ‘No beer on Passover, okay?’ —Jerusalem to Jewish soldiers in Egypt, 419 BCE

  One fine day in the spring of 419 or 418 BCE, a Jewish soldier opened up an official missive sent to him and his fellow troops stationed in upper Egypt.   The author of the letter was Hananiah, a Jewish official in Yahud, the name the Persians assigned to the former region of Judah. As…

  By Dr. Henry Abramson Apr 18, 2022 | 4 min read