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Books about the Shoah

-The distinction between the Holocaust’s meanings and its facts “highlights a central issue in the broader debate about what it ...

Holocaust Collections and Connections

-A project sets its goal to collect 1.5 million crayons to commemorate the 1.5 million children who perished in the ...

Ecology in Israel

-Avner Rinat is working to be “awarded the desirable title of holder of an A-level bird-ringing license.� (Haaretz)-Are irises making ...

Israel’s Poor and Homelesss

-A look at the work of Jerusalem’s Hetzroni Zula, a refuge for street youth, mostly teenagers from religious Zionist backgrounds. ...

Peoplehood is so vacant, it’s vacuous

In last week’s Forward, Jay Michaelson entered the Peoplehood debate with force, simultaneously acknowledging his own sense of connection to ...

Israel’s Government

-Is Israel’s government becoming a gerontocracy? (Haaretz)-Isi Leibler says that not only “our prime minister is a failed leader,� but ...

Shut Up, I’m Talking

Today’s edition of the Very Short List features Gregory Levey’s memoir Shut Up, I’m Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I ...