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The Global Partisans’ Song Project on South African National TV

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This impressive 12 minute segment on the Global Partisans’ Song Project featured on SABC TV, South Africa’s national television network, last Sunday:   https://youtu.be/tnaCtuqVBgg Click here to visit The Zog Nit Keynmol Collection at SaveTheMusic.com There are many...

Natalie Portman refuses to receive Genesis Prize in Israel

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Hollywood Actress and director Natalie Portman, who once said that she would not “you know, s**t on Israel,” has announced that she did not “feel comfortable” accepting an esteemed award in the Jewish state...

Parashat Metzora מְּצֹרָע

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The word “Metzora” ("מצורע" - one who has “Tzarat”) comes from the Hebrew words “Motzi Ra” ("מוציא רע”), he who spoke ill of someone as “Lashon Hara” ("לשון הרע"). We also see that the...

Parashat Tazria תַזְרִיעַ

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Parashat Tazria follows Parashat Shemini to teach us that we must first be holy before we can merit the blessings of birth. We must separate between pure and impure, women must purify in the...

Today, 75 years of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising are commemorated. A history of resistance...

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It is 75 years since the beginning of one of the most heroic deeds of the Jewish people: the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, during which less than a thousand Jews confronted the powerful Nazi army...
Intel Shooting Star Quadcopters. Photo courtesy of Intel.

300 Intel drones to light skies over Jerusalem at Israel Independence celebration

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Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel, will join Israel for Wednesday night’s 70th-anniversary celebrations, bringing along 300 Intel drones to help put on a massive light show in the skies over Jerusalem. “I am excited to...

College parties like no other, bringing Israel into the mix

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In the weeks leading up to Yom Ha’aztmaut—Israel’s Independence Day—on April 19, pro-Israel students from more than 160 university campuses across North America have been holding parties and celebrations for the Jewish state’s 70th...

BRIEF Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Kiddush cup is up for auction

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A silver-plated Kiddush cup used by the Lubavitcher Rebbe is going up for auction. The cup that the Lubavitcher Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson—used during prayers for “Grace After Meals” and in the Havdalah ceremony that...

Walking in the footsteps of those who battled in 1948

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Members of the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli civilians are jointly commemorating the decisive battles of the 1948 War of Independence ahead of national celebrations of Israel’s 70th year of Independence. “When you study the...

Anne Frank House initially bars (then allows) Jewish employee from wearing a ‘kipah’

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Of all the places on earth, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam prohibited its Jewish employees from wearing kipot, head coverings worn by observant Jews that are also referred to as yarmulkes. The outrageous policy was...