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Germany helps identify Holocaust-era mass graves

A project to save Holocaust-era mass graves from oblivion in Eastern Europe has received about $400,000 from the German Foreign Ministry.

The vote in South Sudan for ‘the Jews of our time’

From the start, the author viewed the South Sudanese as the Jews of our time: targeted for mass murder and slavery by the government in Khartoum while the so-called civilized world sat on its hands.

The Horror of the Bible, in Nine Creepy Tales

These aren’t the Bible stories you grew up with. In the anthology She Nailed a Stake through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror, nine writers reconceive biblical stories in their own unique voices–and put their own spins on the originals. In “Jawbone of an Ass,” for instance, Delilah’s seduction of Samson takes place in a British-controlled Ireland where the IRA […]

AJC honors Angela Merkel for Jewish, Israel support

Helping an orphan of history recover its past

Holocaust denier deemed dangerous gets gun license

Livni cancels South Africa visit

Amid crisis and violence, Tunisian Jews safe but guarded

With Stuxnet delaying Iran’s bomb, is the urgency gone?

Same-sex Jewish couple united in Amsterdam shul

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