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Daily Archives: July 7, 2018

As part of the “Summer of Service” day-camp program, students with disabilities will visit seniors in Washington, D.C. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Etan J. Tal.

In nation’s capital, teens with disabilities offer summer help to homeless, hungry, seniors

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Students with a wide variety of disabilities, including autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, learning and attention issues, mental-health challenges and other disabilities are improving the lives of people in need in Washington, D.C. The teens...
U.K. Parliament in London. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

British government plans inquiry into incitement in Palestinian textbooks

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The British government is set to review the Palestinian Authority’s educational curriculum over growing concerns that British taxpayers are paying for the Palestinians to teach children incitement and anti-Semitism. In a letter to Labour Friends...
E.U. High Representative Federica Mogherini with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif before P5+1 nations resume nuclear talks in Switzerland in 2015. Credit: U.S. State Department.

In Vienna, Iran fails to get guarantees on continued access to oil, financial markets

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Iran failed to get concrete guarantees from the remaining members of the Iranian nuclear deal on access to oil and financial markets as the United States is set to resume harsh sanctions on the...
The rail leading to the former Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp in Poland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Our view from Auschwitz: How tragedies of the past become lessons for the future

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History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time. – Erik Qualman Last month, we had the opportunity to delve deeper into the devastating and horrifying truths of the Holocaust. We traveled to six countries—the Czech...
French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, March 19, 2015. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

French filmmaker and visual Jewish storyteller Claude Lanzmann dies at 92 last Thursday

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Claude Lanzmann, a French filmmaker perhaps best known for the nearly 10-hour oral-history project “Shoah,” died on July 5 at the age of 92. Originally from an Eastern European Jewish family who moved to France,...