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Keeping Up With the Times: Digitizing Holocaust Archives

September 25, 2012
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By Amanda Walgrove The rapid growth of technology, characteristic of the twenty-first century, has altered methods of human relation. Communicating through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and email...

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Keeping Up With the Times: Digitizing Holocaust Archives

February 18, 2011
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By Amanda Walgrove The rapid growth of technology, characteristic of the twenty-first century, has altered methods of human relation. Communicating through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and email...

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A Revolution By Any Other Name

August 15, 2012
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By Niv Elis For the Czech Republic it was Velvet. For Serbia, it was a Bulldozer. For Iran, it was distinctly Islamic. But nobody has yet...

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Czech Out Those Jews: Judaism in the Czech Republic

May 8, 2012
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By Kayla Green How is it possible to judge the attitude toward Jews in the Czech Republic, a country where Jews have in recent history suffered...

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The Golem in the Attic

May 8, 2012
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By Kayla Green Tucked away in the snowy cobblestone streets of Prague’s Jewish Quarter stands a synagogue that is as old and significant as it is...

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The Holocaust Today

May 8, 2012
By Symi Rom-Rymer
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By Symi Rom-Rymer January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops. In 2005, 60 years after the liberation,...

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Jewish Ghosts of Budapest

May 8, 2012
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By Merav Levkowitz On the last evening of 2010, a Friday, about 35-40 (mostly) young adults, gathered in a non-descript apartment in the center of Budapest’s—actually...

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A Tale of Two New Years

May 8, 2012
By elisniv
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By Gabriel Weinstein Optimism and excitement for the new year still permeate the crisp winter air as in the second week of 2011. Lofty...

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Renewing Galicia

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
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by Gabriel Weinstein My grandfather always chuckled when we spoke about the Galicia region of northwestern Ukraine and southeastern Poland. He’d cackle, “Galicia! We used to...

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Gentrification and the Jews

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
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by Lily Hoffman Simon Jewish immigrant communities coming to North America around the turn of the 20th century faced many problems, including poverty, anti-Semitism, and poor...

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Israel's Other Refugee Problem

May 8, 2012
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by Daniel Kieval On Monday night, a few days after thousands marched for human rights in Tel Aviv, Israel deported about 150 refugees back to their...

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Israel’s Katrina

May 8, 2012
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By Gabriel Weinstein After last week’s forest fire, the Carmel region in Northern Israel’s once emerald forests and fields have become a barren prairie of charred...

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