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  Remembering How Polish Jews Lived, Not Just How They Died

  In the summer of 1939, when I was 8 years old, a family friend brought me from Warsaw, Poland, to join my parents, who were in the United States on business. My parents had decided that it was no longer safe to return to the country where our family had lived for generations as members…

  By Tad Taube

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  Is Israel Losing Young Democrats?

  Some people find numbers intimidating. If you are among them, skip the first four paragraphs. When it comes to Americans favoring Israel over the Palestinians, Israel wins by a wide margin — 54% to 8%. Alas, if that’s as far as you read, you will be woefully underinformed. For that number is only for Americans…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 6, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Why Holocaust Survivors in Israel Are Angry

  Back in 2008, it looked like the living conditions of Holocaust survivors were, at long last, to significantly improve. A state commission of enquiry, headed by retired Judge Dalia Dorner, concluded that there should be major increases in money directed to survivors, and the government agreed. Five years on, ask most survivors and they’ll tell…

  By Nathan Jeffay Apr 5, 2013 | < 1 min read

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  Yuri Fights! Yuri Wins!

  Yuri Foreman, the rabbi-in-training who doubles as a boxer, was dreaming big after winning the latest fight in his comeback trail. He wants to be the next Jewish champ. “In the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s there were so many Jewish boxing champions, the best at that time, the strongest people,” he said. “So I am…

  By Ari Jankelowitz Apr 5, 2013 | 2 min read
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  Miliband vs. Miliband Feud Ends as One British Jewish Brother Comes to New York

  It was perhaps the most consequential Jewish brother vs. brother feud since the biblical Joseph was packed off to Egypt. It ended, appropriately, during Passover. That’s when former British foreign minister David Miliband announced, two and a half years after losing a bitter Labour Party leadership battle to his little brother Ed, that he was…

  By J.J. Goldberg Apr 5, 2013 | 4 min read
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  Yair Lapid’s Party Popularity Jumps 50%

  Yesh Atid surprised pundits when it came second in the January general election in Israel, despite the fact it was a brand new political party with a leader, Yair Lapid, who had never served in Knesset. But it doesn’t stop there. If a poll released today is right, then Yesh Atid has increased its popularity…

  By Nathan Jeffay Apr 4, 2013 | 2 min read
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  Rabbi-in-Training Yuri Foreman Returns to Ring

  Yuri Foreman (29-2), the heralded rabbi-in-training continues his comeback trail in New York City tonight at the Roseland Ballroom. His opponent is Gundrick King (18-9), a former college football player for the University of North Alabama, who not to be outdone intellectually, studied applied microcomputer design while in college. On paper this could be considered…

  By Ari Jankelowitz Apr 4, 2013 | < 1 min read
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  Where’s the Justice for American Settler Killed by Palestinian Stone-Throwers?

  Two FBI special agents sat across from me in a conference room at the J. Edgar Hoover Building, in Washington. It was late October last year, shortly after Sukkot. We were discussing the deaths of my son Asher Palmer, and my grandson Yonatan Palmer, who were murdered on a Friday afternoon, September 23, 2011. That…

  By Michael Palmer Apr 4, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Forget Empathy, Path to Mideast Peace Lies in Hardboiled Realism

  During President Obama’s recent trip to Israel, he spoke of the urgent need to renew peace talks. But in his vision of how to arrive at these talks, he seems to have disregarded the common sense principle that peace is made between enemies. The principle appears to be embraced in the course of ordinary affairs….

  By Natasha Gill Apr 3, 2013 | 4 min read
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  ‘Jewish’ County and the Texas Prosecutor Murders

  The sprawling Texas county where two prosecutors have been shot in recent weeks has the unlikeliest of Jewish roots. Kaufman County, a 780-square-mile jurisdiction just 20 miles southeast of Dallas, is named for David Spangler Kaufman. He holds a place in history books as a lawmaker in the Republic of Texas and was the only…

  By Michael Kaminer Apr 2, 2013 | 2 min read
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  English Soccer, an Italian Fascist and the Jews

  There was an old slogan on the left in the years between the wars: Fascism means war. Succinct, it managed to say at once that war is inherent to fascism, since it is both expansionist and authoritarian, and that fascism demands war as an ideology so heinous it must be combated. Such sentiments evidently still…

  By Liam Hoare Apr 2, 2013 | 3 min read