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Articles
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That Magnificent Man in his Flying Machine
By David E. Kaplan
Seventy-two years after taking off to do battle from the sky to secure the future of the nascent Jewish state in the War of Independence, Smoky Simon celebrates his 100 birthday by again taking to the sky in a one-propellor Tiger Moth and ruminates of those daring days when Israel’s future lay in the balance.
That Magnificent Man in his Flying Machine
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The Story Seldom Told
By Rolene Marks
While concern for the descendants of Palestinian refugees who fled during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence still dominates the global media, the writer asks what about the plight of the over 850,000 Jews forced to flee from Arab countries leaving behind homes, possessions and a way of life they enjoyed for over 2000 years?
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The Oscar Winner and Plungė
By Danutė Serapinienė
The passing of South African-born British author, playwright and screenwriter, Sir Ronald Harwood best known his screenplays The Dresser and The Pianist, for which he won an Academy Award, Harwood‘s roots trace back to the Lithuanian Shtetl of Plungė (Plungyan).
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