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Deported From US, Israeli Marijuana Scientist Fighting To Be Reunited With Wife

NEW YORK (JTA) — He came from Israel to the U.S. for work, got married, bought a house and expected to start a family right away. Then U.S. immigration authorities forced Shimon Abta out of the country for being a “trafficker of illicit drugs.” Abta, an expert Israeli cannabis agronomist, was sent by his employer […]

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The Sons (Of Jacob) Also Rise

Inside the mystery of the massive portraits of the biblical patriarch and his 12 sons at the Frick.

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Poland’s Attempt To Obscure The Past

It is a sad irony of post-Holocaust history that as the world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day this past weekend, the government of Poland seemed intent on rewriting the past. Upping the ante on a controversy that has simmered in Poland for decades, the nation’s increasingly nationalist government is seeking to make it a criminal offense […]

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