Jewish Voice from Germany, published by former Israeli, marks renaissance of long-dormant culture.
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Jewish Voice from Germany, published by former Israeli, marks renaissance of long-dormant culture.
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Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, study reveals that one in five Germans' 'latent' hatred for Jews starts at a young age.
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Stephen Shore, who began taking pictures when he was 6 and sold his first works to New York’s Museum of Modern Art at 14, has perfected the art of finding beauty in the banal.
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In Israel at least, the stereotype of Jews as puny and unathletic still prevails, but a new museum show featuring the tales of 19 Jewish champions aims to rectify that error.
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The sketches, mostly drawn in pencil, document sometimes gruesome images of life and death at the concentration camp.
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Martin Kollar is the youngest of the artists participating in the photographic project organized by Frederic Brenner. His stay here was just one more chapter of a life in perpetual motion.
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In this fast-paced age of digital photography, Rosalind Solomon, 81, develops her work in a darkroom and is not bothered about being a 'dinosaur.'
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He came here believing in a two-state solution, but after living here for four years and photographing West Bank communities, Nick Waplington 'learned that this is nonsense.'
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Barbur Gallery in the tiny Jerusalem neighborhood of Nahlaot is hosting a unique photography exhibition though January 12, a project coordinated by the American photographer Wendy Ewald.
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For 25 years, Nicola Abdou has been serving as an Israeli Santa Claus, a mission he took upon himself and fulfills by distributing gifts to children of all religions.
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Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum, father of 11 and the head of a yeshiva in Bnei Brak, was shot to death at close range by an unknown assailant, while visiting Zurich to raise money.
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Yehuda Magidovich is no household name. But as the man who designed some 500 buildings in Tel Aviv, perhaps he should be.
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Library's academic director says Max Brod, Franz Kafka's lifelong friend, was Jewish, Israeli and a Zionist - so Brod's estate containing Kafka manuscripts must remain in Israel.
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Jungjin Lee's photo of Midreshet Ben-Gurion reveals her interpretation of the Land of Israel as a metaphor - as something that can be anywhere, she says.
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Two years of preservation, restoration and rehabilitative work on the grand building on the corner of Rothschild and Allenby in Tel Aviv have drawn to a close. A first peek inside.
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Conspiracy claims to keep famed writer Franz Kafka's diaries are the latest twist in the Kafkaesque saga.
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Goebbels' love letters and other items formerly belonging to senior Nazis to go on sale to the highest bidder in Connecticut.
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Neo-Nazi board game, called Pogromly, first surfaced in 1997; recently exposed cell reportedly sold dozens of units to extreme rightists across Germany.
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Thomas Struth specializes in portraits, whether of families - including the British royals - tourists or entire countries. Like Israel, for example.
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Twelve of the world's leading photographers are participating in an unprecedented project aimed at revealing Israel as they see it, capturing with their cameras both big and small moments that will together create a unique mosaic. First in a series.
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A new exhibition at Beth Hatefutsoth highlights the contributions of - and injustices done to - Jewish mathematicians in wartime Germany.
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A booklet to help soldiers prepare for officers' school neglects to mention that the illustrious former president is a rapist and that Israel didn't exactly win the Second Lebanon War.
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An ambitious new project seeks to digitize the entire Cairo Geniza, and piecing together half a million document fragments scattered around the world.
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Mira Ben Ari became a symbol of the fighting pioneer woman after she sent her young son away and died fighting the Egyptians in 1948, at age 22. Now, 63 years later, that son has allowed her letters to be published for the first time.
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About 4,000 people named on the list of possible defendants in a joint project which resulted from the precedent-setting ruling in the case of John Demjanjuk.
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