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In addition this week:
31 May 2022 – Rolene Marks speaks to WINA’s Rob Schilling about the CNN Report blaming Israel for the killing of journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh and talks about the importance of Jerusalem Day.
31 May 2022- Radio Modi’in- Amiad Taub interviews the city’s resident and media woman Rolene Marks for a talk on advocacy abroad, immigration to modi’in and social struggles.
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Articles
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF CNN
Who are the so-called ‘experts’ CNN quotes accusing Israel of a “deliberate” killing of a journalist?
By Rolene Marks
What strangely happened when respected reliable news network CNN dispensed with its professed professional journalism to recklessly or intently malign the Jewish state without any proof other than quoting proven prejudicial “experts” that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) deliberately targeted and killed Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh? The writer breaks it down.
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LITHUANIAN JEWS ARE STILL AVOIDING THEIR COUNTRY’S HOLOCAUST DISTORTION
What a shame that those who work to reveal Lithuania’s large-scale participation in Holocaust crimes are being sidelined
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff
By not inviting certain internationally renowned researchers to address the 2022 “Fifth World Litvak Congress” in Vilnius in May, the hosts lost a golden opportunity to publicly confront the false narrative of successive Lithuanian governments, which minimizes the role of local collaborators in the mass murder of Lithuania’s Jewish community during the Holocaust. WHY?
LITHUANIAN JEWS ARE STILL AVOIDING THEIR COUNTRY’S HOLOCAUST DISTORTION
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CELEBRATING JERUSALEM EVERY DAY
Each new morning brings fresh delight and insight
By Jonathan Feldstein
“While I am not a prophet, this year I felt like a prophet of doom,” the writer joked with friends advising “we should hold off plans until after the war starts.” Such was the collective fear of a repeat war on Israel’s annual Jerusalem Day celebrations! Despite the gloomy ‘forecast’ – peace prevailed! From the balcony of his apartment with a view of the iconic sights of three major religions, the writer celebrates Jerusalem every day.
CELEBRATING JERUSALEM EVERY DAY
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LOTL Cofounders David E. Kaplan (Editor), Rolene Marks and Yair Chelouche
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