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David and Avi Wisnia at a panel discussion as part of the International Conference on Education About Auschwitz and the Holocaust, October 26-29, 2015. Photo courtesy of Avi Wisnia.

How music led to a cantor’s survival story, and how it lives on in...

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April tends to feature a flurry of Holocaust-related arts pieces—from new exhibits to books to webinars and movies. One of them this year offers a through-the-generations feel that brings the past right into viewers’...
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (center) celebrates Mimouna at the Knesset Plaza in Jerusalem, April 12, 2023. Credit: Knesset.

Mimouna celebrated at Knesset for the first time

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The Knesset on Wednesday hosted its first-ever Mimouna celebration, welcoming hundreds of guests in a traditional Moroccan tent erected in the front plaza. The festive custom, held the day after Passover, was brought to Israel...
Jan and Miep Gies, Oct. 8, 1980. Credit: Marcel Antonisse/Anefo, National Archive via Wikimedia Commons.

‘A Small Light’ shines on Miep Gies, who kept Frank family hidden in Amsterdam

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National Geographic released the trailer from the upcoming eight-part limited series “A Small Light,” produced by ABC Signature and Keshet Studios. It will have a multi-network launch on May 1 at 9 p.m. EST...
Harrison Ford as “Indiana Jones.” Credit: Stefano Chiacchiarini '74/Shutterstock.

‘Indiana Jones’ again faces Nazis in Harrison Ford’s final performance of iconic role

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The forthcoming film “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” which was invited to screen at Cannes, is reportedly set in 1969 and will include another “mystical relic.” The snake-fearing, whip-wielding archaeologist (Harrison Ford)...

Africa and America: Uprooting apartheid-label antisemitism

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In this episode of “Our Middle East,” a panel discussion on the apartheid libel against Israel, moderated by Pastor Dumisani Washington, founder of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel, a Jerusalem Center for...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Credit: Hans Pennink/Shutterstock.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces new group, ‘Progressives for Israel’

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Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced plans on March 13 to start a pro-Israel group via a video played at Carnegie Hall during World Values Network’s 80th commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. “I’m starting an...
World-renowned cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper helped create a large-scale symphonic work honoring the heroism of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who helped thousands of Jews escape World War II and the Holocaust. Credit: Courtesy.

Yad Vashem-sponsored symphony celebrates Japanese diplomat who saved Jews during the Holocaust

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Samurai warriors live by the moral code bushido, or “way of the warrior.” World-renowned cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper, a half-Japanese convert to Judaism living in Tel Aviv, comes from a samurai background. So did Chiune Sugihara,...

Israel’s democracy is just fine

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n a recent column, historian Gil Troy wrote, “Caricaturing the Israeli government as worse than it is, and Israeli democracy as more fragile than it is, is a gift to the bash-Israel-firsters in the...
Freddie Feldman created this challah in the form of House Targaryen's coat of arms from “Game of Thrones.” Courtesy of Freddie Feldman.

Meet the man whose challah will make you holla

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Growing up in New York state, Freddie Feldman never made a challah. But the Skokie, Ill., resident is on a hot streak, having made a challah or matzah every Friday for the past 138...

Tehran, Doha repress Iranian dissidents at World Cup

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Iran and Qatar have joined forces to squash protests in the latter nation against the Islamic regime in Tehran during the FIFA World Cup. “The World Cup has helped put Iran’s brutality on a world...