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Tribute to late Rabbi Shea Heller
IJN StaffMay 24, 2012
By Mattis Goldberg DEAR Reb Shea, It is hard to believe that you are no longer with us. Throughout your life you were a fighter. You fought as an American […]
From skinhead to proud Jew
JTAMay 17, 2012
WARSAW Fifteen years ago, Pawel Bramson was a skinhead shouting anti-Semitic and racist slogans during soccer matches. He hated Jews and blacks simply, he says,...
A Denver warrior against cancer
Andrea JacobsMay 17, 2012
WHEN Dr. Fred Hirsch was a young medical student in Copenhagen, his father-in-laws premature death from lung cancer compelled him to dedicate the rest of his life to...
Benzion Netanyahu in America
JTAMay 03, 2012
BENZION Netanyahu historian, one-time political activist and father of Israels prime minister died Monday, April 30, in Jerusalem at 102. An accomplished scholar...
How does an Arab-Israeli school confront independence day?
JTAApr 26, 2012
JERUSALEM The two seventh-grade girls walk together down the hall, their heads touching as they talk excitedly. Danas dark auburn hair is pulled back in a ponytail....
Iranian Israelis fear strike will severely compromise Jews in Iran
JTAApr 19, 2012
TEL AVIV Avi Nobel lived in Tehran and is sure the Iranian people want peace. There are a lot of poor people there and what they want is food […]
The Holocaust and the third generation
JTAApr 19, 2012
NEW YORK Shira Sheps remembers walking through an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan and stumbling upon her grandmothers long-ago school...
IJN obituary data online
Chris LeppekApr 12, 2012
THE genealogy craze has come home to intermountain Jewry, and in a big way. Thanks to dedicated and hard-working Denver genealogist Terry Lasky and the Jewish...
Israeli fireman researches firefighters’ PTSD
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21cApr 05, 2012
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION B PAGE 10 ISRAELI firefighters, like their peers elsewhere, suffer powerful emotional consequences from their dangerous work, according to a...
Einstein archive digitized and expanded
JTAApr 05, 2012
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION B PAGE 19 The newly improved Einstein Archives website relaunched recently with expanded offerings. The online archive now makes available...
