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How Aharon Appelfeld chronicled the Holocaust

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Friday, 18 May 2012 22:00
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Blooms of Darkness, in Green's graceful, grave and irresistibly readable English version, tells the story of Hugo, a young Jewish boy in an occupied town in eastern Europe who loses his parents...

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Terror survivor's show takes swing at conventions

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Friday, 18 May 2012 19:51
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Haggai Leffler, who survived one of the most gruesome terror attacks to hit Tel Aviv in 1990s, channels horrific experience into creating a unique exhibition following the escapade of a...

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Introducing: The Jordanian Talmud

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Friday, 18 May 2012 19:49
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More than 90 Jordanian researchers have spent six years translating the Babylonian Talmud into Arabic. In Amman, a set of Shas sells for $750 – and there's strong demand for copies in other Arab...

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The Innocents, By Francesca Segal

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Friday, 18 May 2012 13:00
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In a humorous and touching re-working of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, debut novelist Francesca Segal substitutes for 1870s New York a tightly-knit Jewish community in present-day...

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Just Send Me Word, a True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag, By Orlando Figes

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Friday, 18 May 2012 13:00
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The gulag has never won the public profile of the Nazi concentration camps. Some 18 million people passed through the Soviet Union's labour camps. Millions died. But, for Russians and foreigners...

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Aitan Goelman: Peter Beinart Is Wrong About American Jews

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Friday, 18 May 2012 12:10
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Contrary to Peter Beinart's thesis in The Crisis of Zionism, American Jews need not -- and most have not -- checked their liberalism at the door in order to maintain unwavering support for the...

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Their Sense of Belonging

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Friday, 18 May 2012 11:35
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In his three-volume history, Antony Polonsky surveys the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1350 to the present. Timothy Snyder reviews.

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Motherlode Blog: A Bar Mitzvah, With Autism

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Friday, 18 May 2012 05:07
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When a bar mitzvah collides with autism, it's a coming of age ritual for both father and son.

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Motherlode Blog: A Bar Mitzvah, With Autism

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Friday, 18 May 2012 05:07
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When a bar mitzvah collides with autism, it's a coming of age ritual for both father and son.

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Zimbabwe's 'black Jews' observe traditions

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Friday, 18 May 2012 00:10
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Lembas see themselves as southern Africa's tribe of 'black Jews'; honor Semitic roots for centuries, despite converting to Christianity, Islam

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Egyptian director: Don't screen my film in Israel

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:53
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Yousri Nasrallah says he doesn’t wants his film about post-revolution Egypt to be shown in Israel 'as long as the Israelis still occupy Palestinian territories'

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Finding god in Indian prison

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:35
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Yinon Tayeb's quest to find himself gets him in trouble but eventually leads to religion and his true calling – music

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Israeli band under heavy security in Baku

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:34
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Iranian terror threat requires tight security for Izabo, which represents Israel at Eurovision

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Victim’s boyfriend sparked rowdy protest in Jewish Williamsburg 

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 11:12
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The rowdy protest in Williamsburg’s Hasidic enclave Wednesday night blasting supporters of an accused child molester was organized by the teenage victim’s boyfriend.

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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Nonfiction, Week Of May 17, 2012

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 06:47
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Erik Larson tells the story of an American family in Hitler's Berlin in In the Garden Of Beasts.

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Judith Walkowitz: The Naked Women Who Defied Hitler

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:56
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Despite its sleazy exoticism, London's Soho in the 1930s boasted one local institution that catered to middlebrow suburbia.

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Rabbi Yosef: Treating gentiles violates Sabbath

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:36
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Shas' leader says religious physicians cannot violate Sabbath in order to save gentiles' lives, but offers halachic solution to avoid legal repercussions

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'Patriot Of Persia' Revisits 1953 CIA Coup In Iran

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:23
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Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Christopher de Bellaigue about his book Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup.

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Book review: 'Second Person Singular' by Sayed Kashua

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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:00
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A lawyer and a caretaker with similar backgrounds follow different paths in contemporary Jerusalem with the same motivation: to leave their small-town Arab lives behind and be accepted for the new...

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Stolen bibles discovered in Safed

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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:51
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Boys playing in abandoned house find six stolen bibles. Books estimated at hundreds thousands of shekels

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London Olympics won't hold moment of silence for Munich victims

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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:12
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The International Olympic Committee has once again refused a request from the victims' families to hold a moment of silence in their honor during the opening ceremony of the 2012 games. Foreign...

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Thousands of Jewish pilgrims pray in Morocco

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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:11
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Some 5,000 Jews, including from Israel, gather at heavily-guarded sanctuaries, gravesites of prominent rabbis

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Benayoun finishing Arsenal episode on positive note

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:00
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Israeli midfielder, who is on loan from Chelsea, tells English club's website 'when I finish I will have to decide about my future'

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Descendants of Templer sect visit Israel

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:58
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Group of German decedents of the Templer Society, a Christian sect that settled on Holy Land but also supported Nazis, reunite in Tel Aviv

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Israeli artist to present Pope with 'Illuminated Book of Genesis'

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:09
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Avner Moriah will present Pope Benedict XVI with his Illuminated Book of Genesis during a special audience at the Vatican on May 16

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Holocaust Survivor Wins Top Literary Award

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Monday, 14 May 2012 21:18
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A Holocaust survivor who escaped from a Second World War labour camp has won a literary prize for a novel inspired by his experiences. Aharon...

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Report: Israel 45th best place for moms

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Monday, 14 May 2012 18:02
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World's Mothers Report ranks Israel below Cuba on list of best places to raise children. Norway ranks first, while Niger takes last spot

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Greece condemns far-right party's Holocaust denial

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Monday, 14 May 2012 17:56
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Athens' government, Jewish community outraged by Golden Dawn party's denial of Nazi atrocities

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Boyd Tonkin: A witness for a younger Jewish generation

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Monday, 14 May 2012 13:00
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Aharon Appelfeld, who lives outside Jerusalem, was born in 1932 in Czernowitz in Bukovina, now in Ukraine. German was his mother tongue. "I come from a deeply assimilated Jewish home," he told me...

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'Love can overcome brutality': foreign fiction award won by Holocaust novel

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Monday, 14 May 2012 13:00
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An octogenarian Holocaust survivor has won The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for a novel loosely based on his experiences during the Second World War in which he escaped from a labour camp.

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Excerpt: 'Hugh Hefner' On Sex In The Afterlife

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Monday, 14 May 2012 11:22
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The following is an excerpt from "Chicago Stories" by Michael Czyzniejewski [Curbside Splendor, $14.99], a collection of humorous, fictional tales "narrated" by famous Chicagoans,...

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Star-studded Hollywood delegation to visit Israel

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Monday, 14 May 2012 02:02
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Sacha Baron Cohen, Harvey Keitel to attend Tel Aviv film festival; Omar Epps to head delegation of stars invited as part of effort to boost Israel's image

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Jewish pilgrims stay away from Lag B'Omer festival in Tunisia

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Monday, 14 May 2012 02:01
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No more than 500 pilgrims attend religious festival at one of Africa’s oldest synagogues due to security concerns

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Jordan releases detained publisher

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Sunday, 13 May 2012 21:36
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Publisher of online newspaper, charged with propagating 'anti-regime sentiment,' freed on bail

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Israel: Olympics delegates misunderstood kiteboard vote

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Sunday, 13 May 2012 19:03
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Spanish Sailing Federation admits it mistakenly voted to drop windsurfing, one of Israel's most successful sports, from Rio 2016 Olympics

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In SoHo, Kosher Rules Get New Twist

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Sunday, 13 May 2012 16:40
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The plans for Jezebel look like many other SoHo restaurants aiming to draw a hip, downtown crowd. The difference is in the details, and an Orthodox Jewish overseer who will keep an eye on the...

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Haredim oppose Yardena Arazi performance at J'lem ceremony

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Sunday, 13 May 2012 01:50
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Council members claim haredi members carrying out women's exclusion in Worthy Citizen ceremony but haredim say they are ones being excluded

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When Jewish women embraced mah-jongg

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Saturday, 12 May 2012 21:00
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An exhibition at Skirball Cultural Center tells how the Chinese game was adopted and integrated into another social fabric.

"What's the difference between Jewish and Chinese mah jong?" the...

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Survey finds web usage gap between Israeli sectors

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Saturday, 12 May 2012 18:26
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Study shows Internet usage is lower among religious, poor sectors; according to results, Arab-speakers read more news online than Hebrew users

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WWII British report: Hitler developed 'Jewish phobia'

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Saturday, 12 May 2012 18:12
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Unknown secret wartime report from 1942 reveals Hitler's unstable mental state as tide was turning in allies' favor. Analysis suggests Hitler's growing fear of defeat, belief he was leading...

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Book review: Peter Beinart's 'The Crisis of Zionism' sounds call

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Friday, 11 May 2012 21:00
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The author wants American Jews to force changes in Israeli policy to protect the democratic legacy of Labor Zionism. He also explains why that's unlikely to happen.

Nearly all the considerable...

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Eliott Gould stars in Jewish video series

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Friday, 11 May 2012 19:59
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Celebrated actor joins forces with renowned screenwriter, accomplished director and haredi rabbi to create mini-series aiming to help Diaspora Jews rediscover their roots

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The late, great Philip K. Dick

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Friday, 11 May 2012 19:57
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New Hebrew translation aims to introduce unique science fiction writer to Israeli readers

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Tel Aviv's Art Scene: Edgy, Political and Expanding

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Friday, 11 May 2012 14:33
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An art fair has a special resonance: It's part of this city's Art Year marking the opening of a $50 million wing that has nearly doubled the exhibition space of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

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On The Eve: The Jews Of Europe Before The Second World War, By Bernard Wasserstein

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Friday, 11 May 2012 13:00
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Brick Lane, east London's most mythologised street, was once a labyrinth of Jewish immigrant culture and Hasidic custom. Orthodox Hasidim had settled in the area during the 1880s after fleeing the...

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George Washington attacks bigotry in letter to Jewish congregation

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Friday, 11 May 2012 10:47
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A letter penned by George Washington that's been locked away for a decade will be the centerpiece of an exhibit dedicated to America's early roots in religious freedom.



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‘The Spanish Holocaust,’ by Paul Preston

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Friday, 11 May 2012 05:45
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In Paul Preston’s history of the Spanish Civil War, the atrocities under Franco mirror those in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.

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World's largest mezuzah donated to hospital

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Friday, 11 May 2012 01:15
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Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot presented with 1.4 meters bronze mezuzah, donated by Israeli-French businessman Shmuel Flatto-Sharon. Official request to record it as world's largest mezuzah...

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Survivors celebrate late Bar Mitzvah

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Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:51
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Some 70 years late, 13 holocaust survivors place tefillin, read Haftara with Bar Mitzva boys

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Gwyneth Paltrow Scores a New Fragrance Deal Like a (Hugo) Boss

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Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:33
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Gwyneth Paltrow, Hugo Boss NuitGwyneth Paltrow is making scents. The Oscar-winner, celebrity BFF extraordinaire and Gooptastic all-rounder just scored herself a brand-new gig: the face of the just-launched Boss Black...



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