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Opinion This Black American diplomat is one of the least-known architects of the state of Israel
Ralph Bunche, the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize, was honored for mediating between Israel and its neighbors
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Culture Why does everyone want Jerusalem? CNN investigates in a new docuseries
Sunday night, after Jews around the world mourn the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem on Tisha B’av, CNN will premiere a series that — in so many words — traces 3,000 years’ worth of conflict to the laying of those structures’ cornerstones. Solomon’s Temple, author Susan Wise Bauer argues in “Jerusalem: City of Faith…
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Opinion In WWI, Jews Fought for Britain. So Why Didn’t Britain Fight for Jews?
“Britain has been all she could be to Jews” — a recruitment poster issued at the beginning of World War I reads — “Jews will be all they can to Britain: Join the special Jewish unit.” At the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, it was the policy of the established Jewish community in Britain…
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Culture Britannia Rules the Words No More in Israel
While waiting for a train in an Israeli station the other day, I was bemused to hear an announcement in English, following a similar one in Hebrew, that said, “Smokers are requested to smoke only in the dedicated area.” I suppose someone meant “designated,” unless the announcement concerned dedicated smokers. This kind of thing isn’t…
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Breaking News British Mandate Chief Compared Jewish Fighters to Nazis
The High Commissioner of Palestine viewed the behavior of Jewish fighters as comparable to that of the Nazis, newly published records show. On April 30, 1948, Alan Cunningham wrote to his superiors that as the Jews celebrated military successes their “broadcasts, both in content and in manner of delivery, are remarkably like those of Nazi…
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Sports ‘Best friends I ever had’: Willie Mays’ treasured bond with a Jewish family
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Opinion Why I (finally) took down my ‘We Stand With Israel’ sign
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Opinion I’m a Louisiana Jew. The Ten Commandments get lost in translation in the new law
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Democratic Socialists face defeats down the New York ballot
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Yiddish אוי די כּהנים! וואָס ווילן זיי פֿון מיר?Why don’t those ‘kohanim’ leave me alone?
זינט איך האָב זיך געגט מיט מײַן ערשטן מאַן האָבן כּהנים זיך אָנגעזעצט אויף מיר, כּלומרשט כּדי מיר צו העלפֿן.
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Fast Forward Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint
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Culture Harry Schimmelman, we know your wife didn’t die of influenza; she’s looking for you
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