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Articles
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Enough is Enough
For antisemites, enough is never ever enough as the last 2000 years of history attests
By David. E. Kaplan
Interesting how people ask of the Holocaust “How could Jews allow themselves to walk in their millions to their slaughter?” and yet scream “FOUL” when they defend themselves. Only for Jews is “defense” a “war crime”!
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Cadena – Bringing Dignity Back to Young Women
Breaking taboos, Jewish non-profit on a mission to repair the world
By Rolene Marks
Proud Project. Volunteers from Jewish non-profit helping in South Africa upgrading unsafe and unsanitary latrines.
With at least 50% of young women in South Africa having their education disrupted during their menstrual cycle, the Jewish non-profit Cadena is helping alleviate the situation by breaking taboos through hygiene education so that their general academic education is free from disruption.
Cadena – Bringing Dignity Back to Young Women
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Beyond Words
By Monessa Shapiro
Words Unworthy. Recent hostilities has exposed the dangerous abuse of words to slander and malign Israel.
As we learn from Humpty Dumpty how words can “mean so many different things”, we need to be cautious of a media that glibly embraces the parlance of the terrorist not to describe events accurately but to skillfully undermine the very legitimacy of the state of Israel.
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