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The town of Chelm has long existed in the Jewish imagination as a popular destination–the “city of fools” immortalized in folktales, mostly for the ridiculous behavior of its fictional inhabitants. Many Chelm stories were written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Others have been told and retold so often that their authors have been forgotten (to check out some of […]

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Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Israel, has an unexpected new ally in its efforts to chronicle the Nazi atrocities: Google. Each day, Yad Vashem gets literally hundreds of requests for information about Holocaust victims. It’s impossible for the museum to respond to all of them. But a collaborative project with Google offers massive assistance…in the form of […]

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  What’s with the Jewish ideal of wanting our kids to be doctors? It seems we’ve forgotten the Jewish roots of the union movement–folks who put in a hard day’s work at the factory, then protested for the rights of others. Not to worry–Jewnion Label has us covered. Jewnion Label creates logos and designs for clothes that […]

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