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AIPAC opens conference with appeal to bipartisanship amid polarization
Ron Kampeas, JTA
March 26, 2017
Is Trump Hitler?
Rob Eshman
December 16, 2015
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wondered in print whether Donald Trump isn’t the second coming of “the bully from the beer halls.”
In defense of Natalie Portman
Jewish Journal
September 2, 2015
Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman is taking a pretty good beating in the Jewish community for her remarks on the Holocaust during a recent interview with a British newspaper, The Independent, to promote her directorial debut, “A Tale of Love and Darkness.”
Jewish-sponsored youth village in Rwanda hosts first utility-scale solar power field
Jewish Journal
February 6, 2015
The first utility-scale solar power field in East Africa, built on land belonging to a Jewish-sponsored youth village in Rwanda, was launched.
Turning ‘never again’ into action: the legacy of Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
Jewish Journal
January 22, 2015
70 years ago this week, the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp was liberated. From the ashes of the murdered arose the words “Never Again” – spoken as shorthand for our collective responsibility to act in the face of genocide.
Surviving survival: Living life after genocide
Jewish Journal
April 23, 2014
April brings many moments for reflection and sorrow.
Leaving Israel, Africans face detention, possibly death
Simone Wilson
March 11, 2014
“When the conflict started in the Darfur region and we came to Israel, all the people knew why,” said Yeman Adam, a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker who fled to Israel in 2008.
Anne Heyman, Rwandan youth village founder, dies in horse-riding accident
Jewish Journal
February 3, 2014
Anne Heyman, a Jewish philanthropist who founded a Rwandan youth village for children orphaned in that country’s 1994 genocide, died in a horse-riding accident.
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