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Articles
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UN’SAVOURY
UN representatives downplaying terror when perpetrators are Palestinian and victims are Jews
By David E. Kaplan
How do the terrorist actions of Palestinian Ammar Hadi Mufleh attempting carjacking an Israeli couple then stabbing an Israeli police officer in the face while trying to grab his rifle, end up being described by a top United Nations official as merely a “scuffle”?
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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT CHANUKAH BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
By Jonathan Feldstein
How would you relate the biblical story and explain the traditions of Chanukah to those unfamiliar with this eight-day Jewish “festival of lights”? The writer faced this question when addressing pastors from Africa who had previously no interaction with Jews or Jewish culture.
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT CHANUKAH BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
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A MATTER OF HONOUR
Film is a cry for justice and a demand for Jewish honour
By Michael Kretzmer
The writer’s film J’Accuse! includes several lists, notably an 80-name list of the Lithuanian murderers of his own family in Birzai. Fifty of these murderers “WERE NEIGHBOURS”. The willing collaboration of Lithuanians in exterminating its Jewish community can no longer be ignored. “Silence,” says the writer, “is no longer an option.”
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