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Culture Finally, an event to honor the only American Girl doll who eats challah and owns a samovar
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Between 98-99% of Danish Jews were rescued by their fellow citizens during the Holocaust
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Culture A high-tech answer to the dilemma of how to teach the Holocaust to kids without traumatizing them
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Culture In a France riven by terrorism, why history (and one particular Jewish historian) still matters
Marc Bloch would have understood the irony of the threats issued at the school bearing his name
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