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Daily Archives: March 25, 2021

A polling station in Jerusalem for those with COVID-19, March 23, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Absentee ballots key as Likud holds 30-seat lead, Ra’am drops to four

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Israel’s Central Election Committee on Thursday began counting the hundreds of thousands of “double envelopes,” or ballots cast outside assigned polling stations. These absentee votes are estimated to be worth as many as 12...
Nazi SS guards on the arrival ramp at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp in Poland, May 1944. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/Courtesy of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum finds new names, stories from Nazi death camp

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Archivist Ewa Bazan at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum discovered new names and stories linked to the German Nazi concentration and death camp. “We didn’t know what to expect when we started the project,” Bazan told AFP in a...
A classroom for young girls in the coastal town of Elmina, Ghana. Credit: World ORT.

World ORT launches STEM project for girls in Ghana, backed by UNESCO

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World ORT is leading an innovative training project in Ghana to promote computer courses led by women for young girls. Backed by a UNESCO grant, the Women STEM Trainers program in the coastal town of...

How is this White House Seder different than all others?

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The Biden administration is hosting a virtual Passover Seder open to the general public on Thursday in a move to expand its outreach to the broader American Jewish community, the White House told the...

March 25, 1943: More than 6,200 Dutch physicians, 97 percent of the country’s doctors,...

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More than 6,200 Dutch physicians, 97 percent of the country’s doctors, went on strike against the Nazi-created Chamber of Physicians on this date in 1943. Mandatory registration with this newly formed guild would have...