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EST 1917

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Berlin — When supporters of the anti-immigrant PEGIDA movement and right-wing extremists in the former East Germany started demonstrating by the tens of thousands this year against foreigners and “American Zionist” policies, I got mad. When the first refugee homes in Germany were set on fire, I was shocked. When another refugee home was torched […]

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The most solemn day on the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur is observed in Israel in various fashions. For religious citizens and visitors, it is a 25-hour period of fasting and self-denial, of introspection and self-examination, and of prayer. Synagogues are packed, as is the plaza of the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. […]

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