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May 8, 2008
The Wright flap and the black candidate
Barack Obama\’s presidential candidacy is providing a crash course on race in America.
Probe of Olmert could derail peace process
The corruption investigation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, which is threatening to bring down the Israeli government, potentially may have far-reaching consequences for Middle East peacemaking.
Call for Jews to shun China Olympics stirs opposition
In an appeal issued April 30 and timed for the commemoration of Yom HaShoah, 185 Jewish leaders — mostly clergy — appealed to Jews not to attend the Beijing Olympics this summer as tourists.
Israel to rock the Kodak but hoping for more glam
Rami Kleinstein music video \’Winds of War\’ ( Hebrew)
In planning the May 10 celebratory \”Israel at 60\” megaconcert for Hollywood\’s Kodak Theatre, the producers went down the A-list of Jewish celebrities, requesting their presence at what is hoped to be the grandest celebration in Los Angeles of Israel\’s 60th year of independence.
From generation to generation
For 40 years, my grandfather`Arthur Cohn held the office of chief rabbi of Basel, a city to which he had come at the age of 23. Although unwavering in his religious principles, which he sought to inculcate and foster in the community, he was exceedingly tolerant toward those of other beliefs.
The professor the anti-Semites love
Kevin MacDonald had just completed the first in a series of books that would come to define him.MacDonald, 64, has been deemed America\’s \”foremost anti-Semitic thinker\” by civil rights experts.
Obituaries
Yossi Harel, Commander of Exodus, Dies at 90
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\nLast week, a white-haired former shipmate propped a gold-fringed, pale blue flag of the legendary Exodus ship next to the coffin of its commander, Yossi Harel.
The Shoah, Beit T’Shuvah, Clinton, Raphe and Szyk
\”Thank you for reminding those who sometimes forget that \”never forget\” means just that…\”
Survivors’ stories create fabric of Shoah quilt
Ann Spicer\’s experience is not unique among the more than 100,000 Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the United States after the war. But she has chosen to share her memories this year in a unique way — by contributing this photograph to a \”Shoah Quilt\” project put together by Mount Sinai Memorial Parks in honor of Yom HaShoah
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