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November 12, 2014
Lessons from the Berlin Wall
Last Saturday night in the posh section of Berlin, I took a hammer and chisel and pounded away at the Berlin Wall.
Three pioneering Jewish women doctors
A century before today’s fear of an Ebola outbreak, there was fear in Los Angeles of tuberculosis, and Dr. Kate Levy called out passionately to the Jewish community to aid those suffering from what was called the “White Plague.”
ASA conference revisits the boycott of Israeli institutions
Nancy Koppelman, an American Studies professor at The Evergreen State College in Washington, is well aware of how passionate things can get on college campuses over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The late pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003, had been a student at Evergreen.
Palestinians turn to vocational education to spur job market
Amjad Delbah sits in front of a computer screen wearing headsets, his crystal blue eyes matching the blue carpet in this state-of-the-art facility located in the city’s wealthy suburbs of Al-Tireh.
Hungarian film fest comes to North Hollywood
The latest film festival to open in Los Angeles features a title about a Holocaust survivor who has erased all memories of his Jewishness.
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