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Di avantures fun Sherlock Holmes

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You might have read Sir Arthur’s books, watch the tv programs and the movies made from his stories but, if you have never read it in Yiddish -and in such clean good Yiddish- you...

Donald Harrison returns with new adventures and discoveries about San Diego and the community.

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In his new book, Schlepping and Schmoozing, (volume 1 of two) Harrison takes us by the hand, along the 5 freeway from the US-Mexico border to Old Town, discovering in each exit a trace,...
Magdala Hotel and archeological park. Photo courtesy of Magdala Tourism Center

Step back into biblical times at the Magdala Center

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Eco-tourism, yes. Spiri-tourism? Yes to that too. This is the idea behind the Magdala Center on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. It’s a place where tourists can stay in the brand-new Magdala Hotel, swim in the...
Photo by Benjamin Moogk via Flickr

Women before mothers

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A spectre is haunting the world. It is the spectre of demographic regression. The ideological organs of patriarchy are sounding the alarm: "More and more women on all continents are rebelling and not having...
Jonas Noreika with his future wife Antanina Karpavičiūtė, c. 1936 / Photo: Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania

The Holocaust and Lithuania’s family secret

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Silvia Foti grew up hearing praises of her grandfather. Jonas Noreika—known affectionately as “General Storm”—is still hailed in Lithuania as a war hero and anti-Soviet partisan who fought for Lithuania’s independence at the height...
Miriam Peretz seen at the Knesset on June 1, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel Prize laureate welcomes granddaughter same weekend IDF kills terrorist behind son’s death

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Israel Prize-winning educator Miriam Peretz welcomed the birth of a granddaughter just a day before the Israel Defense Forces killed the terrorist who was behind the operation that killed one of her children. “Out of destruction, a new life...
Saudi social-media influencer Mohammed Saud. Credit: Courtesy.

Saudi social-media influencer: ‘Hope our nation will sign a peace treaty with Israel’

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Saudi social-media influencer Mohammed Saud, who recently made both waves and friends by playing Israel’s national anthem “Hatikvah” on the oud, tells JNS that “Saudi Arabian citizens are starting to learn much more about the Jewish...
A series of pro-Palestinian rallies called “Glory to Our Martyrs” is taking place in Canadian cities following Israel's conflict with Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip from Aug. 5-7, 2022. Source: Screenshot.

FSWC calls for defunding Montreal student groups in ‘Glory to Our Martyrs’ rally

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Officials from the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center in Canada have written to the leaders of two Montreal schools, McGill University and Concordia University, asking them to defund student groups that are participating in...
Wesam Basindawa, founding president of the Yemeni Coalition of Independent Women and the leader of the 8th March Yemeni Union Women. Photo by Dmitriy Shapiro.

Redesignate Yemen’s Houthis as terrorists, says women’s rights group on DC tour

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At the same time that U.S. President Joe Biden traveled to the Middle East in July, a group of Yemeni women set off to Washington, D.C., to encourage the reinstatement of the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)...
British Secretary of State for International Trade Liz Truss arrives at Downing Street in London on June 9 2021. Credit: ITS/Shutterstock.

UK prime minister candidate to review moving embassy to Jerusalem, if elected

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British Foreign Secretary of State and Parliament member Liz Truss promised to consider moving the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem if she is elected Tory leader and becomes prime minister...