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Article 19
We had never thought of it this way, but JTA’s reporter correctly notes that Vancouver, Canada, is “the most Jewishly active city ever to host the Winter Olympics.” The town, in the Canadian province...
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Article 18
• An IDF commander reportedly told Israeli lawmakers that the military is responsible for planning blunders leading up to the flotilla raid. [Haaretz] • After meeting with Saudi Arabia’s king,...
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Article 17
• According to a new Israel Project poll, fewer Americans than over the past few years believe Israeli is committed to peace and that the United States should support Israel. [WP] • Imam Abdul Feisal...
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Article 16
• Sarah Palin accused some of “manufactur[ing] a blood libel”—her way, borrowed from this essay, of saying they accused some of helping cause the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Er, not what the...
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Costas to the Rescue
With the 2012 Olympic Games just over a week away, Bob Costas has joined the chorus of lawmakers and organizations who have come out against the International Olympic Committee’s refusal to hold a...
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• The Italian Parliament held a moment of silence to honor the 11 athletes and coaches killed at the 1972 Munich Olympics. [Times of Israel] • The Times explores the differences between the Showtime...
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How Yehuda Levi and Ninet Tayeb's Break-Up Rocked Israel
During a week when the Israeli public was occupied with news of the reemergence of the polio virus, local health services sent around some thoughtful advice in its weekly newsletter: “Yehuda and Ninet...
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Munich Designer Creates Anne Frank Video Game About Life in Hiding
A Munich game designer has created an interactive video game that reenacts a day of hiding in the life of Anne Frank, with the hopes of memorializing the Holocaust for the millennial generation, JTA...
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The Deep Moral Question at the Heart of the $1B Nazi-Looted Gurlitt Collection
The discovery of the largest cache of looted Nazi art since the end of World War II, with an estimated worth of well over a billion dollars, in a shabby Munich apartment belonging to an 80-year-old art...
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Some Things Really Do Warrant Comparisons to Nazis
Inappropriate Hitler analogies are tossed around so casually and so often, it’s easy to forget that not every comparison to the Nazi regime is completely off base. Consider, for example, Philippine...
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German Newspaper Depicts Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as Hook-Nosed Octopus
On Friday, the Süddeutsche Zeitung—one of Germany’s most serious and widely-read broadsheet dailies—published a cartoon about Facebook’s newly-announced acquisition of WhatsApp, the text-messaging...
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Germany Reaches Deal on Nazi-Looted Art Trove
The German government has announced a new agreement with Cornelius Gurlitt, whose father amassed more than $1 billion worth of Nazi-looted art during World War Two, that will begin the process of...
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Cornelius Gurlitt, Center of Nazi-Looted Art Dispute, Dies at 81
The 81-year old recluse German Cornelius Gurlitt, who hoarded modern European masterpieces in his Munich apartment for decades until the trove was discovered in 2012, died after a heart operation on...
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German Artist Commemorates 1933 Book Burning With Annual Reading
On May 10, 1933, as part of a nation-wide “campaign against the un-German spirit” organized by university students, tens of thousands of Nazis and their sympathizers celebrated a huge “burning...
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With Israeli Citizens Gunned Down, Will Brussels Be the New Munich?
The murder of two of its citizens in Brussels last week by an unknown gunman raises an interesting question: If the Belgian police fail to bring the shooter to justice, might the attack prompt Israel...
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Why Won't the City of Munich Lift Its Ban on Stolpersteine, the Holocaust...
The German city of Munich has decided to continue its ban on Stolpersteine, or the golden “stumbling stones” that memorialize victims of the Holocaust along cobblestone streets in 18 countries across...
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Why Netanyahu Is No Churchill
In a speech last week about Iran’s nuclear agreement with the West, which is supposed to monitor his country’s nuclear facilities over the next 25 years, Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
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The Israeli Castration Complex: From the 1972 Munich Massacre to Anne-Marie...
An email from the cache of correspondence Hillary Clinton kept on her private server during her tenure as Secretary of State shows that former aide Anne-Marie Slaughter proposed raising private funds...
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How an Israeli Family Conquered the Vienna Food Scene
If London has Ottolenghi; Paris, Miznon; and Jerusalem, Machneyuda, then Vienna has NENI. Founded in March 2009 by the indefatigable Haya Molcho and her sons, NENI has become the go-to restaurant in...
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The Cross and the Tallit: The Photographic Art of Benyamin Reich
In late April 1945 American Air Force planes strafed a train carrying over a thousand Jewish prisoners in the tiny Bavarian station of Schwabhausen. It was the beginning of an extraordinary story that...
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