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UNRWA does not have any intention of changing their school textbooks
UNRWA is now running a campaign in which it shows itself demanding specific changes in the textbooks used in UNRWA schools, as circulated by some pro-Israel organizations, even though UNRWA cannot make any changes in...
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, by Ari Shavit
Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists...
Elmo’s Little Dreidel, by Naomi Kleinberg
What’s a dreidel? Elmo wants to know! He finds out as he celebrates the first night of Hanukkah with a friend’s family.
He watches Gil, Susie, and their parents light the menorah and joins in...
A Dominican development project inspired by the sad history of the Evian Conference
With the intention of rescuing the history of Sosua and the attempt to save 100,000 Jews by offering them refuge in the Dominican Republic, the government of this country and Hugh Baver are working...
Managing Multiple Identities On The Internet
The Internet provides kinds of opportunities that people could never have imagined before it came into existence. One kind of opportunity relates to the ability of people to assume many different identities within the...
The controversial Sholem Ash’s classic Got Fun Nekome de Sholem Ash back in NY...
New Yiddish Rep (NYR) is bringing back by popular demand the controversial classic “God of Vengeance” for a special encore running for two weeks at Theatre at St. Clement’s, 423 West 46th Street, from...
Will the U.S. and Canada leave Mexico behind?
America and Canada dropped their first hints that they could strike a new trade deal without Mexico. And Mexico suggested that it's not interested in any deal that puts it at a disadvantage.
President Trump's...
FDA Grants a Tyr Pharma Fast-Track Status
Shares of drugmaker aTyr Pharma climbed over 30 percent Wednesday following news that the San Diego firm’s drug should progress quickly through the regulatory process.
ATyr’s drug, called Resolaris, was granted “fast-track” status by the...
Trump secretary of state pick Tillerson slams anti-Israel security council resolution, vows to make...
The anti-settlement resolution approved by the UN Security Council last month was “not helpful” and “undermines” the chances of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks being renewed, Rex Tillerson — President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state nominee...
I Wrote the IDF Code of Ethics. Here’s My Take on the Hebron Shooting
raeli public debate is focused these days on a seemingly simple incident: In Hebron, two Palestinian terrorists attacked a team of Israel Defense Forces soldiers, managing to stab one of them before they themselves...