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‘Tolkien’ b’Shevat
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAJan 17, 2013
LOS ANGELES What lore does Bilbo Baggins have to share with us about Tu bShvat? While viewing The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and hearing the Middle Earth...
Times change: Berlin is tourist spot
JTADec 27, 2012
BERLIN It used to be that few Jews would consider Berlin, or even Germany at all, as a tourist destination. But that has changed as Berlin has become a […]
Christmas trees in Israel, but not like those in US
Ben Sales, JTADec 20, 2012
GIVAT YESHAYAHU, Israel Winding up and down the rows of Arizona brush trees, Jason Heeney sees slim pickings for Christmas. This tree would be hard to put the star...
Most Jewish groups set to leave Haiti
Gil Shefler, JTADec 13, 2012
NEW YORK It was the poor construction. There had been many earthquakes more powerful than the one that hit Haiti nearly three years ago, and there have been many...
Nature has no borders at Arava
Chris LeppekDec 07, 2012
CHANUKAH EDITIONSECTION A PAGE 7 WHAT happens to a peace dialogue when peace is shattered? David Lehrer a big believer in dialogue between Middle East antagonists ...
ReWalk allows the paralyzed to walk
Ben Sales, JTADec 06, 2012
CHANUKAH EDITIONSECTION B PAGE 6 YOKNEAM ILIT, Israel Radi Kaiuf was serving in Lebanon in 1988 with the Israel Defense Forces Golani Brigade when, in the middle...
Kosher cheese firm vows to carry on, post-Sandy
Chavie Lieber, JTANov 22, 2012
JERSEY CITY, NJ A flooded warehouse, decomposed wall beams, sodden sheetrock, crumbling brick walls, a fried electrical system and about $2 million worth of rotten...
Kristallnacht Torah: One man’s escape from Germany
Edmon J. Rodman, JTANov 01, 2012
LOS ANGELES It was the Night of Broken Glass in Germany, Kristallnacht a national pogrom of death and destruction of Jewish property and the rounding up of...
Abe Foxman says it as it is
Chris LeppekNov 01, 2012
YOUVE got to give Abraham Foxman credit he is an eminently adaptable creature. Leave alone that his knowledge base and skill set as the Anti-Defamation Leagues...
Fry saved 2,000 in France from Nazis
Andrea JacobsNov 01, 2012
Pierre Sauvage, the award-winning documentary filmmaker, celebrates the quiet heroism that contradicted armies of the morally silent in the Holocaust. His films include...
