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Can You Live On $22 a Month?
Government pensions to Holocaust survivors average only $22 per month.
That's almost twice below internationally recognized poverty levels for the poorest countries in the world.
Many survivors receive no reparations from Germany. Those that do (8.9%)...
Yiddish Classes for Everybody at JCC San Diego
We are pleased to announce that, starting in mid-January, YAAANA will offer a Tuesday class series exploring Yiddish language and culture through literature, music, theater, and film! The class is suitable for people of...
Dual Virtual Reality/Treadmill Exercises Promote Brain Plasticity in Parkinson’s Patients
A new Tel Aviv University study suggests that a therapy that combines Virtual Reality and treadmill exercise dramatically lowers the incidence of falling among Parkinson's patients by changing the brain's behavior and promoting beneficial...
Are Jews at Risk for Parkinson’s Disease?
“My mother had always been haunted by Parkinson’s because her aunt had suffered from it,” Sergey Brin, one of the two Jewish co-founders of Google, wrote in a 2008 blog post. “For more than...
Anne Frank’s final days, as told by her former classmate
Looking through the barbed wire of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 14-year-old Nanette Konig could barely recognize her friend and classmate from Amsterdam, Anne Frank.
Both girls had been caught by the Nazis in the Dutch capital...
President Reuven Rivlin welcomed with honor by Spain’s King Felipe VI
First presidential visit to Spain in 25 years • President to speak in Spanish Senate, may announce Israeli stance on Catalan secession crisis • Historic visit a century after first synagogue opened in Madrid...
President Rivlin to the Jews of Spain: let us stand together
President Reuven Rivlin held meetings with Jewish community leaders on Sunday as part of a state visit to Spain in a parley that was attended by David Hatchwell, president of Madrid's Jewish community, and...
When Jesus said the Shema
So you’ve heard of the Shema, right? The most important prayer in Judaism? Traditionally recited twice a day, upon waking and going to sleep?
Today, when we say “the Shema,” we’re talking about the verse...
La vida ke no mos manke
Un dia resivi una email diziendo: Estamos arrivando!
En realidad, esto fue un siman ke mis ijos estavan pensando a vijitarme dentro de poko. La alegria fue grande. Antes de empesar kon los aparejos, esperava...
Trump’s team thinking ‘out of the box’ on Israeli-Palestinian peace
US President Donald Trump’s team is taking a fresh approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that could offer some hope of progress after two-decades of stagnant attempts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday, at...