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The View from Istanbul: Why Radical Propaganda Hurts Everyone

March 22, 2013
By Aylin Kocaman
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The mainstream media love fundamentalists. Why? Because they are such effective tools. Talk of peace or peaceful people seldom appear in the media. Bloodshed, hateful talk,...

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Rabbi to Seek Out “Lost Jews” of Italy

March 21, 2013
By Daphna Berman
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An Italian rabbi has been appointed a new emissary for the "lost Jews" in Sicily and southern Italy. Rabbi Pinchas Punturello, 36, will work on...

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Who Knows One? What The Popular Passover Song Teaches Us About the Holocaust

March 14, 2022
By Harold Klein
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At the end of the Seder we sing the song “Who knows One?" As we recite verses that increase the count with each next verse,...

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From the Moment Bookshelf: A Review of Yitzhak Orpaz

March 21, 2013
By Daphna Berman
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Death of Lysanda: Two Novellas Yitzhak Orpaz, translated by Richard Flint and David Zaraf Dalkey Archive Press $14.00 By Katie McGinnis Dalkey Archive’s publication of Yitzhak Orpaz’s Death of...

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Happy Birthday, Philip Roth!

March 21, 2013
By Sala Levin
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Happy Philip Roth day, as today--the 80th birthday of the pride of Newark--might well be called, with the writer's hometown hosting a Philip Roth bus...

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A Vegan Seder?

April 15, 2014
By Gary Smith
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This year will be the third year my Jewish vegan friends and I celebrate “veder,” our version of a vegan Passover seder. All of the...

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Will Catholic-Jewish Relations Improve Under Pope Francis?

“We have been given arguably the most positive result one could want in terms of Catholic-Jewish relations,” Rabbi Noam Marans, director of interreligious and intergroup...

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Muslim Brotherhood: “Women Should be Controlled by Man of the House”

March 15, 2013
By Daphna Berman
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Statements about the role of women from top officials in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood are garnering criticism and shedding a spotlight on an organization that until...

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Haggadah 2.0: New Website Makes Passover Story Personal

March 14, 2022
By Daphna Berman
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A California-based start-up is aiming to make the traditional seder Haggadah more relevant by offering users the chance to create a text that incorporates everything...

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The View from Istanbul: When Did Hatred Become a Religion?

March 13, 2013
By Daphna Berman
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When did hatred become religion? By Aylin Kocaman For some, religious devotion has long been “hatred”. If a Muslim hates Jews, Christians, Zionists and Freemasons, then that...

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Female MKs Join Women of the Wall in Jerusalem

March 12, 2013
By Daphna Berman
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Female members of Knesset joined Women of the Wall at their monthly gathering at Jerusalem's Western Wall this morning and used their parliamentary immunity to...

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Lunch with an Auschwitz Tour Guide: A Personal Essay

March 12, 2013
By Daphna Berman
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By Arielle Silver “I used to be a tour guide at Auschwitz,” Timo said, and then rested his fork on the edge of his Panang curry....

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