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may the piercing wails of the Shofar herald new directions to bring the world to a healthier and more peaceful place.
Articles
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‘CLOSED CIRCUIT’ OPENS MINDS TO TERRORISM
Observations and insights in chilling documentary about 2016 terrorist attack in the heart of Tel Aviv
By David E. Kaplan
The evening of 8 June 2016 was a Midsummer Nights’ Nightmare at Tel Aviv’s popular Sarona market, when two ISIL-inspired Palestinian terrorists sat down at a table at ‘Max Brenner’, removed their firearms and shot randomly – killing and wounding in a murderous rampage. Now made into a chilling documentary, its showing followed by a panel discussion at Reichman University’s Counter-Terrorism Conference, proved unnerving as it was illuminating.
‘CLOSED CIRCUIT’ OPENS MINDS TO TERRORISM
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THE GREATEST BRITON
A tribute to ‘The Queen’ of our times
By Rolene Marks
From the writer’s perspective in Israel, “David Ben Gurion was Prime Minister” when the globally lamented Queen Elizabeth II “ascended the throne”. Her 1947 declaration on her 21st birthday in Cape Town, South Africa that “… my whole life. whether it be long or short. shall be devoted to your service…” was thankfully “long” and explains why her funeral is expected “to be the most viewed event in history.”
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Poland & Lithuania
A sad tale of two countries
By Stephen Schulman
Grateful to the foresight of all his four grandparents who left Eastern Europe for South Africa over a 100 years ago, the Holocaust was part of the writer’s “education and consciousness” but hardly touched him personally until he came to Israel and married Yona. Born to parents in a DP Camp in Germany before emigrating to Israel, Yona’s family’s history brought home to the writer the intimate horrors of what befell Europe’s once thriving Jewish communities.
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