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Israel uses Gaza Fatah members to secure aid
In recent weeks, Israel’s War Cabinet approved enlisting the help of Gaza residents affiliated with the Palestinian Authority ruling Fatah movement to secure the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip and prevent theft...
Jerusalem Arabs, sworn to ISIS, planned Teddy Stadium attack
Four Arabs from eastern Jerusalem who had sworn allegiance to ISIS, two of whom planned to attack a police station near the city’s Teddy Stadium, were indicted on Thursday.
Jerusalem’s Central Police Unit and the Israel...
Israeli wounded in Gan Yavne terror stabbing dies
One of three Israelis wounded on Sunday night in a terror attack at a mall in the southern city of Gan Yavne has died, Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital announced Thursday.
Lidor Levi, a 34-year-old software...
The Secret Jewish History Of Procol Harum
ifty years ago this spring, a then unknown British rock group called Procol Harum released its very first single, “A Whiter Shade Of Pale.” The distinctive recording went to No. 1 in the United...
The Tevye Tales They Left Out Of The Musical
I'm happy to spread the word about this show. These three truly are among the finest actors on the Yiddish stage. If you like a good laugh give yourself a treat and see
Tevye...
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...